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 original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to a UK Film Council press release of 20 January 2011, £ 1. 115 billion was spent on UK film production during 2010.

According to a Cornell University press release from January 2009, the 2008 – 09 season will be the last Cornell-sponsored search, absent confirmation of the bird:

According to the press release, " The centre will comprise a 10MW light-water reactor working on 20 %- enriched uranium-235, an activation analysis laboratory, a medical isotope production laboratory, silicon doping system, nuclear waste treatment and burial facilities ".

According to both Roddenberry and an NBC press release, this was the justification for six additional episodes being ordered by the network for the series ' second season.

According to biographers, Harding got along better with the press than any other previous President, being a former newspaperman.

According to Gretzky himself, he always finished dead last in peripheral vision, flexibility and strength, and could only bench press.

According to a press conference held in Winter Park, Florida, on February 2, 1967, by Disney Vice President Donn Tatum, the Improvement District and Cities were created to serve " the needs of those residing there ", and the company needed its own government to " clarify the District's authority to services within the District's limits " and because of the public nature of the planned development.

According to the CBS press release for Rawhide, Universal Studios ( then known as Universal-International ) was shooting in Fort Ord when an assistant noticed Eastwood and arranged for him to meet the series ' director.

According to a NASA press release, APOLLO researcher Tom Murphy said, " We got about 2, 000 photons from Lunokhod 1 on our first try.

According to the British press, an average glamour model can earn £ 10, 000.

According to the Bolivian press, Coca-Cola legally imported 204 tons of coca leaf in 1996.

According to press secretary George Christian, Johnson was unsurprised by the riots, saying: " What did you expect?

( According to The Guardian of 26 July 1991, Pik Botha told a press conference that the South African government had paid more than £ 20 million to at least seven political parties in Namibia to oppose SWAPO in the run-up to the 1989 elections.

According to a NATO press release, the agreement began the ratification process in 1992.

According to press reports his membership lapsed in 2006.

According to scholar Colin G. Crisp, " Anxiety about resuscitating the flow of silent films was frequently expressed in the industrial press, and a large section of the industry still saw the silent as a viable artistic and commercial prospect till about 1935.

According to the official web page of the navy one large and one small logistics ships are wanted but according to a press release ( 24 / 2009 ) from the Government one ship is planned.

According to the press note issued by the government, those companies will convert their first balance sheet as at April 1, 2011, applying accounting standards convergent with IFRS if the accounting year ends on March 31.

According to the " Best of the Rest " section of ESPN's Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame program, NBC television footage and press photos prove that no official rules ( Ryder Cup or PGA ) were broken when the Americans celebrated after Leonard's putt ( i. e. no one walked in or crossed Olazábal's putting line – although Europe player Sam Torrance has said in TV interviews that a TV cameraman stood on Olazábal's line while filming the invasion of the green by players and spectators ).

According to a press report in 2003, Adair was handed details of republican suspects by the Intelligence Corps, and was even invited for dinner with them in the early 1990s.

According to Deborah Blum in The Poisoner's Handbook ( p. 123 ), Midgley sought treatment for lead poisoning in Europe a few months after his demonstration at the press conference.

According to Reporters Without Borders, more than a third of the world's people live in countries where there is no press freedom.

According to a press release released by the company, site work had already begun and construction of the tower would be complete by 2014.