The Athanasian Creed, also called the Quicumque vult from its initial words, is the last of what in the West are regarded as the three catholic or ecumenical creeds.
Named from the initial words (beati sunt, "blessed are") of those sayings in the Latin Vulgate Bible, the Beatitudes describe the blessedness of those who have certain qualities or experiences peculiar to those belonging to the Kingdom of Heaven.
In a similar test, a person who is asked to recall the words on a list he has just viewed will recall the initial words in the list best ("primacy effects") and those at the end next best ("recency effects"), while items from the middle are least likely to be recalled.
However, many /dz/-initial words in Min are cognately related to -initial words in Hakka, and an association between /dz/ and might have thus been established.
As is an allophonic variant of /ŋ/ in Hakka that only occurs before /i j/, Hakka learners of Min showed free variation of and for /dz/-initial words in Min due to negative transfer.
He walked back those comments in his first interview after the incident, telling ABC's Rebecca Jarvis that his "initial words fell short of truly expressing what we were feeling".
Vowel-initial words in Irish exhibit behavior that has led linguists to suggest that the vowel sound they begin with on the surface is not actually the first sound in the word at a more abstract level.
One analysis of these facts is that vowel-initial words actually begin, at an abstract level of representation, with a kind of "empty" consonant that consists of nothing except the information "broad" or "slender".
Another analysis is that vowel-initial words, again at an abstract level, all begin with one of two semivowels, one triggering palatalization and the other triggering velarization of a preceding consonant.
Then, Dale Cline, the editor and publisher of the Concord Standard, who had been at the Rotary Club meeting, appeared on MSNBC, saying that Hayes had told him he was "talking more about spreading Christian principles than spreading Christianity itself," but that Hayes wasn't backpedalling and was probably comfortable with his initial words.
