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* In English, the word " dog " can have two apparently unrelated meanings: " a kind of carnivorous mammal " or " to pursue with unflagging patience.
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Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.
When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.
In his mind he spoke simultaneously the English sentence and the Martian word and felt closer grokking.
The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.
The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.
The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.
For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.
Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.
" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.
Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.
The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".
Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.
The word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard.
The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").
Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".
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The Latin-derived form of the word is " tecnicus ", from which the English words technique, technology, technical are derived.
The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).
The English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.
English and dog
For example, English over and Hebrew ′ avar are not cognates, and neither are English dog and Mbabaram dog.
As many of the early Germanic loanwords into Estonian were Saxon, their cognates can be found in Anglo-Saxon English, for example, ' nurk ' ( corner ) is found as ' nook ' in English and ' koer ' ( dog ) is ' cur ' in English.
Two of these feathers allow his guns to swivel and fire automatically ( often while Tex's hands are raised ) and the other two allow his horse ( Rocky ) and his dog ( Dusty ) to speak English.
As an example of false cognates, the word for " dog " in the Australian Aboriginal language Mbabaram happens to be dog, although there is no common ancestor or other connection between that language and English ( the Mbabaram word evolved regularly from a protolinguistic form * gudaga ).
* English dog and Mbabaram dog
Frasier and Martin are joined by Daphne Moon ( Leeves ), Martin's English, live-in physical therapist and caretaker, and Martin's dog Eddie ( Moose ).
For example, English speakers recognize that the words dog and dogs are closely related — differentiated only by the plurality morpheme "- s ", which is only found bound to nouns, and is never separate.
The English plural, as illustrated by dog and dogs, is an inflectional rule ; compound phrases and words like dog catcher or dishwasher provide an example of a word formation rule.
In other words, the syntactic rules of English care about the difference between dog and dogs, because the choice between these two forms determines which form of the verb is to be used.
In contrast, however, no syntactic rule of English cares about the difference between dog and dog catcher, or dependent and independent.
For animal sounds, words like quack ( duck ), moo ( cow ), bark or woof ( dog ), roar ( lion ), miaow or purr ( cat ) and baa ( sheep ) are typically used in English.
One can find numerous representations of small greyhound-like hounds in art dating back to Roman times but the first written English use of the word " whippet " with regard to a type of dog was in 1610.
The age of the modern whippet dawned in 1890 when the English Kennel Club granted the breed official recognition, thus making the whippet eligible for competition in dog shows, and commencing the recording of their pedigrees.
A word that consists of a single syllable ( like English dog ) is called a monosyllable ( and is said to be monosyllabic ).
The word " bitch ", literally meaning a female dog, is a common slang term in the English language, especially used as a denigrating term applied to a person, commonly a woman.
" The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term meaning " female dog " to around 1000 A. D.
English and can
As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.
Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.
There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.
In other words, like automation machines designed to work in tandem, they shared the same programming, a mutual understanding not only of English words, but of the four stresses, pitches, and junctures that can change their meaning from black to white.
Of course, it can be argued that an ability to write English correctly and with some degree of elegance is a marketable skill.
From this follows a simple algorithm, which can be stated in a high-level description English prose, as:
: " It is true that I can speak the exact, the idiomatic English.
For example, there are more than six signs for birthday in ASL, just as in English one can say couch and sofa, or soda and pop, to mean the same thing.
" The actual English language form of animism, however, can only be attested to 1819.
As Alfred observed in the preface to his English translation of Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, kings who fail to obey their divine duty to promote learning can expect earthly punishments to befall their people.
In English, the term Arabic numerals can be ambiguous.
Similarly, Hindi-Urdu speakers might unconsciously apply their native ' v-w ' allophony rules to English words, pronouncing war as var or advance as adwance, which can result in intelligibility problems with native English speakers.
Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast ( for example, in eastern New England and New York City ) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when these were undergoing changes.
The vowels of Australian English can be divided according to length.
This can result either in some variations becoming extinct ( for instance, the wireless, being progressively superseded by the radio ) or in the acceptance of wide variations as " perfectly good English " everywhere.
Due to imprecision in the standard English language, two completely different feelings experienced by two different people can be represented by an identical verbal expression.
There is no known Old English personal name from which the first element can be derived.
The Shakespearean English form of the word ' brass ' can mean any bronze alloy, or copper, rather than the strict modern definition of brass.
The Bible can fall into both the category of ecclesiastical sources and also this category, as the Beowulf poet would have relied on Old English translations.
especially in England English is tautologous ," and it shares " all the ambiguities and tensions in the word British, and as a result can be used and interpreted in two ways, more broadly or more narrowly, within a range of blurring and ambiguity.
Remorseful, Bruce gets Wallace to safety before the English can capture him.
The Beano comic takes its name from the English word beano which can be loosely interpreted as a good time.
Districts that do not contain a former borough can apply for a charter in a similar manner to English districts.
A breathy-voiced phonation ( not actually a fricative, as a literal reading of the IPA chart would suggest ) can sometimes be heard as an allophone of English between vowels, e. g. in the word behind, for some speakers.
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