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Burma Rim
Burma Rim is a geological feature in the high desert of Lake County, Oregon between Christmas Valley, Oregon to the west and Wagontire, Oregon to the east. The rim was formed when it was the shoreline of a pleistocene era lake. The area is currently overseen by the Lakeview District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The BLM inventoried the area. It spans 90,397 acres and includes a private inholding held by a local conservation group since 2017. The rim includes steep escarpments and remnants of volcanic flows. It is 10 miles southeast of Summer Lake, Oregon and accessible by off-road vehicle. The wreckage of two military plane crashes are located in the area and include memorial plaques to those killed in them. Plane crashes Two plane crashes occurred in the area. A World War II era Lockheed P-38 Lightning crashed in February, 1945 during a training flight. Pilot Max J. Clark perished. A U.S. Navy Grumman A-6 Intruder bomber from the Naval Air Station at Whidbey Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burma Rim, Oregon, 4
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, John Wells explains, the English spellings of both Myanmar and Burma assume a non-rhotic variety of English, in which the letter r before a consonant or finally serves merely to indicate a long vowel: [ˈmjænmɑː, ˈbɜːmə]. So the pronunciation of the last syllable of Myanmar as [mɑːr] or of Burma as [bɜːrmə] by some speakers in the UK and most speakers in North America is in fact a spelling pronunciation based on a misunderstanding of non-rhotic spelling conventions. The final ''r'' in ''Myanmar'' was not intended for pronunciation and is there to ensure that the final a is pronounced with the broad a, broad ''ah'' () in "father". If the Burmese name my, မြန်မာ, label=none were spelled "Myanma" in English, this would b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |