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cribbage

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Cribbage is a card game involving the formation of combinations for points, scored on a pegboard, combining skill and chance.

Detailed Definition
Cribbage enters poetry as a domestic and intellectual pastime symbolizing the accumulation of small advantages. In literature it represents the quiet calculation of scores and the cribbing of points. Poets invoke its pegs and hands to meditate on the incremental progress of fortune, the value of combinations, and the intimate contests of friendship or rivalry around the table.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cribbage’s pegs and combinations supply poets with images of incremental and intimate scoring; Verse of the quiet table uses the board for the slow accumulation of small advantages; “They pegged the cribbage of the evening until the skunk line was crossed” illustrates domestic contest; Educational poetry presents the game as the marriage of cards and arithmetic; Poets keep cribbage when the progress of a relationship or a night must be measured in holes.
Additional Notes
Cribbage’s pegboard and combinatorial scoring turn the quiet accumulation of points into a visible and intimate progress. The game’s domestic associations favor meditative or relational registers. Teachers can use cribbage to introduce the larger family of games that combine cards with a separate scoring apparatus. Related forms include noddy and the various peg-board games. The image works well when the poet needs to show advantage growing one hole at a time.
Also Known As
Game of Strategy Tactical Play Board Contest
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