According to Adams ' account in The Salmon of Doubt, the idea behind The Meaning of Liff grew out of an old school game, and started when he and Lloyd were on holiday together.

According to Salmon, causal processes transmit ' structure ', or energy and momentum or ' information ' from one spatio-temporal location to another.

According to Salmon, Sherlock Holmes is an abstract entity created by author Arthur Conan Doyle, and the fiction is a story, or a collection of stories, which are about that very character but are literally false.

According to Salmon, the ontological argument for God's existence fallaciously assumes that " The F is F " is a truth of logic, or an analytic truth.

According to a marker that was placed on the original bridge, the architect was Maj. Salmon Wheat, a farmer who lived near the present village of Howells ; and directors of the company were Jacob Powell, president ; George Manell, treasurer ; William H. Veller, secretary ; Jonathan Hedges, a Newburgh physician ; Charles Clinton ; Levi Dodge ; Daniel Stringham ; Jonathan Fisk, a Newburgh attorney ; Cyprian Webster, Jr .; Reuben Neely, member of New York State Assembly ; Daniel C. Verplank of Fishkill ; Hamilton Morrison, later a Commissoner of Common Schools for the Town of New Windsor ; and David Crawford, a Hudson River boat captain whose former residence now houses the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

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.

According to Tom McArthur in the Oxford Guide to World English, " For many people.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

According to biographer Carol Easton, Beatrice grew up in a middle-class English household.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the translation of the French term into " human creature " implies that the label " Christian " is a reminder of the humanity of the afflicted, in contrast to brute beasts.

According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the term is interchangeable with the Gewisse, meaning the descendants of Gewis.

According to Edward Barlow, a captain employed by the English East India Company, Kidd attacked a Mughal convoy here under escort by Barlow's East Indiaman, and was repelled.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

According to the 19th-century book, English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants:

According to some researchers, despite the significant differences between the writing systems, Italian, German and English populations suffer similarly from dyslexia.

According to William Lutz: “ Only by teaching respect and love for the language can teachers of English instill in students the sense of outrage they should experience when they encounter doublespeak.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary Online, the first known recorded usage of the word diaspora in the English language was in 1876 referring " extensive diaspora work ( as it is termed ) of evangelizing among the National Protestant Churches on the continent ".

According to the World English Bible translation, Titus 1: 12-13 reads ( in part ) " One of them, a prophet of their own, said, ' Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term has two distinct definitions in modern English.

According to some, due to a misunderstanding arising from differences in pronunciation between French and English, the commonly used brass embouchure in Europe was interpreted incorrectly.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this was in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Hous of Fame, ca.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term ' frequentist ' was first used by M. G. Kendall in 1949, to contrast with Bayesians, whom he called " non-frequentists " ( he cites Harold Jeffreys ).

According to Ministry of Education guidelines, and the opinions of educators, the use of Japanese furigana should be avoided in English teaching due to the differences in pronunciation between English and Japanese.

According to the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun derives from a verb to kilt, originally meaning " to gird up ; to tuck up ( the skirts ) round the body ", which is apparently of Scandinavian origin.

According to some, the modern name of the mountain is Diaforti ( Gell gives " Dioforti " or " Dioforte "), which is presumed to consist of two Greek words: " Dias ", the name of Zeus in modern Greek, and " fero ," a verb meaning " I bring ," thus meaning that Mount Lykaion is a mountain that brings Zeus.

According to them, the Arabic word tʕaraba “ song ” ( from the trilateral root Tʕ-R-B “ provoke emotion, excitement, agitation ; make music, entertain by singing ”) could partly be the etymon of the verb trobar.

According to Sarah Slroumsa " The verb i ' tazala means " to withdraw ", and in its most common use, as given in the dictionaries and attested in Hadith literature, it denotes some sort of abstinence from sexual activity, from worldly pleasures, or, more generally, from sin.

According to such a definition, verb phrases consist only of main verbs, auxiliary verbs, and other infinitive or participle constructions.

According to the notable Turkic linguist Vasily Radlov and the orientalist Veniamin Yudin, the noun qazğaq derives from the same root as the verb qazğan (" to obtain ", " to gain ").

According to the most popular version, the word " rouble " is derived from the Russian verb руби ́ ть ( rubit ), meaning to chop.

According to Islamic scholars, the word Sābi ' ūna ( Sabian ) is derived from the verb saba ’ a, which refers to the action of leaving one religion and entering another.

According to the traditional Jewish ordering of books of the Bible, the very last word of the Bible ( i. e. the last word in the original Hebrew of verse 2 Chronicles 36: 23 ) is veya ‘ al, a jussive verb form derived from the same root as aliyah, meaning " let him go up " ( to Israel ).

According to the initial 1955 report about the epidemiology of the disease, the term chikungunya is derived from the Makonde root verb kungunyala, meaning to dry up or become contorted.

According to the Merriam Webster Third New International Dictionary, the noun evolved from the Middle English verb stenten, shortened from extenten, meaning to stretch, which in turn came from Latin extentus, past participle of extendere, to stretch out.

According to tradition, she was named Nzingha because her umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck ( the Kimbundu verb kujinga means to twist or turn ).

According to a different theory, its original name may have been " San " ( the name today associated with another, obsolete letter ), while " Sigma " was a Greek innovation that simply meant " hissing ", based on a nominalization of a verb ( sízō, from earlier * sig-jō, meaning ' I hiss ').

According to Etymology Online the verb assay, at least since the 13th century meant " to try, endeavor, strive ; test the quality of ," from Anglo-Fr.

According to another theory, Prochyta comes from the Greek verb prokeitai, meaning ' it lies forth ', because of the appearance of the island seen from the sea.

According to another hypothesis, Lucania might be derived from Latin word Lucus meaning " Sacred Wood " ( lucus = lux ; or from verb lucere ), or from Greek Lykos meaning " Wolf ".

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, thrift came to the English language from an Old Norse verb meaning grasp or get hold of.

According to John Halloran's Sumerian Lexicon, the meaning of GUL is " enormous " and " evil " but also the verb " to wreck, destroy utterly ".

" According to the Los Angeles Times, " Pringle has built such a strong reputation for his aggressive pro-business approach to governance ( creative tax waivers, sweeping zone changes, market incentives to redevelop run-down parts of the city ) that other local officials have coined a verb for his philosophy: ' to Pringle-ize.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the verb grub translates as " To dig superficially ; to break up the surface of ( the ground ); to clear ( ground ) of roots and stumps.

According to Adolfo Ernst, the word hallaca evolved from the indigenous Guarani language, stemming from the verb ayua or ayuar, meaning " to mix or blend ".

According to Kazimieras Būga, the name was derived from the root trimp -, which is related to Lithuanian verb trempti ( to trample, to stomp ).

According to this test, the verb phrase built a house is telic, whereas the minimally different built houses is atelic: