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Doner kebab () or sometimes döner kebap, lit. 'rotating roast', often shortened to Doner (), lit. 'turn around', also spelled "doener", "donair", "donar", "doner", or sometimes "donner") is a Turkish dish made of lamb meat (mainly) cooked on a vertical spit and sliced off to order.
There are many variants in the composition of the meat, the ways of serving it, and the garnishes. Derived dishes include shawarma in Arabic and gyros in Greek, although ingredients and sauces differ. The term kebab in some countries refers specifically to doner kebab.
History
Before taking its modern as...
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study of speech sounds: the scientific study of speech sounds and how they are produced
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Utopia |yo͞oˈtōpēə|(also utopia )
noun
an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. The opposite of dystopia.
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