Marketplace Marketplace A market, or marketplace, is a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods. In different parts of the world, a market place may be described as a "souk" (from the Arabic), "bazaar" (from the Persian), a fixed "mercado" (Spanish), or itinerant "tianguis" (Mexico), or "palengke" (Philippines). Some markets operate daily and are said to be "permanent" markets while others are held once a week or on less frequent specified days such as festival days and are said to be "periodic markets." The form that a market adopts is depends on
Letter (alphabet) the surrounding letters or etymology of the word. Regional accents have a significant effect; the letter "a" can range from five to twelve sounds depending on the origin of the speaker. As an example of positional effects, the letter "c" is pronounced [k] before "a, o, u," or consonants (e.g. "critical"), but is pronounced [s] before "e," "i," or "y" (e.g. "democracy"). Conversely, the same phoneme may be shared by more than one letter, as shown by the "c" and "s" in "fence" and "tense". A pair of letters designating a single phoneme is called a digraph. Examples of digraphs