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:— John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs, 1670
Then commences the chronicle of the Northwodes, written in Latin, which we render into English ; and to secure ourselves from error, we make the translation a servilely literal one :—
:— and 2nd
:— House Resolution 368, 97th Congress, 2nd Session, March 2, 1982
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At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.
F. Rahman, Avicenna's Psychology: An English Translation of Kitab al-Najat, Book II, Chapter VI with Historical-philosophical Notes and Textual Improvements on the Cairo Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term " artist ":
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.
" " toxophilite, n ." Oxford English Dictionary.
It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.
* Ansible from the Oxford English Dictionary
* 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.
The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".
According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English, " For many people.
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: Hart's Rules and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors call the British style " new " quoting.
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Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Oxford English Dictionary, finding examples going back to 1961, defines the adjective born-again as:
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The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.
The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either mice or mouses.
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