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"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-America.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/58/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-America.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-America.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/58/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-America.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-America.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-America.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/69/En-us-America.ogg/En-us-America.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/En-us-America.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "North and South America",
"word": "Americas"
},
{
"raw_tags": [
"of America"
],
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "United States of America#Synonyms"
},
{
"english": "often jocular or representing dialect",
"sense": "the United States of America",
"tags": [
"nonstandard"
],
"word": "Merica"
},
{
"english": "often jocular or representing dialect",
"sense": "the United States of America",
"tags": [
"nonstandard"
],
"word": " 'Murica"
},
{
"english": "often jocular or representing dialect",
"sense": "the United States of America",
"tags": [
"nonstandard"
],
"word": " 'murica"
},
{
"sense": "North and South America",
"word": "Americas"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"America",
"Amerigo Vespucci",
"Martin Waldseemüller",
"Naming of the Americas",
"Richard Amerike"
],
"word": "America"
}
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