In the spring of his second year at Harvard, Tom had been offered a job at Northwestern University as an instructor in the English Department.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

A second German edition was published in 1913, containing theologically significant revisions and expansions: but this revised edition did not appear in English until 2001.

English speakers treat them as the same sound, but they are different: the first is aspirated and the second is unaspirated ( plain ).

The second part,, means " faith, word of honour ; religious faith, belief " ( archaic English troth " loyalty, honesty, good faith ").

The second was the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman.

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

The Battle of Poitiers was fought between England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years ' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

Another characteristic of Phnom Penh speech is observed in words with an " r " either as an initial consonant or as the second member of a consonant cluster ( as in the English word " bread ").

: Spanish ( official ), English ( as a second language )

The same phenomenon occurs in English, for example in the second syllable in the word ' bottle '.

English is spoken as a first or second language in most of the Commonwealth.

South Asia has the world's largest English-speaking population with a certain percentage of people who speak English as their first or second language, although most speakers of Indian English, Pakistani English etc.

Charlton's return to the second tier of English football was a disappointment, with their promotion campaign tailing off to an 11th place finish.

After spending almost the entire 2009 / 2010 season in the top six of League One, Charlton were defeated in the Football League One play-offs semi-final second leg on penalties to Swindon Town, condemning Charlton to another season in the third tier of English Football.

An article from Forbes Magazine, dated September 5, 2012, lists the Cowboys as the highest valued sports franchise in the history of the United States, and second in the world ( behind Manchester United of the English Premier League ), with an estimated value of approximately $ 2. 1 billion.

The Deseret alphabet ( Deseret: < big > </ big > or < big > </ big >) is a phonemic English spelling reform developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret ( later the University of Utah ) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Hebrew title is taken from the opening phrase Eleh ha-devarim, " These are the words ..."; the English title is from a Greek mis-translation of the Hebrew phrase mishneh ha-torah ha-zoth, " a copy of this law ", in, as to deuteronomion touto-" this second law ".

The second one, which was adapted by Lianne Sentar, was released by TOKYOPOP in North America. The three volumes for Digimon Frontier have been released by Chuang Yi in English.

Edith was born to the reigning English king Edward ' the Elder ' by his second wife, Ælfflæd, and hence was granddaughter of Alfred the Great.

In 1599 John Farmer dedicated a second book to Oxford, The First Set of English Madrigals, alluding in the dedication to Oxford's own proficiency as a musician.

* Coca Cola Championship, the second division of football in England, see Football League Championship

In the run up to the 2002 election the CSU / CDU held a huge lead in the opinion polls and Stoiber famously remarked that "... this election is like a football match where it's the second half and my team is ahead by 2 – 0.

This was a remarkable result for Coleman who in his second season of coaching pulled off the ultimate prize in Australian football.

Research shows that association football players that take less than 200ms after the referee blows their whistle for a penalty kick are significantly more likely to miss scoring than those that take over a second.

Promotion to the top tier of English football saw the club perform poorly, finishing seventeenth in their first year and eighteenth in their second.

In the 2010 – 11 season the average Premier League match attendance was 35, 363, the second highest of any professional football league other than the German Bundesliga, and stadium occupancy was 92. 2 % capacity.

In American and Canadian football, the ball as it is put in play is only held in the line ( by the snapper ) for a fraction of a second.

Formed in 1859, Geelong is the second oldest club in the AFL after Melbourne and one of the oldest football clubs in the world.

The club participated in the first football competition in Australia, winning the second season in 1863, was a foundation Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) and the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) in 1897.

* 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football ( soccer ) match.

This is reflected, among others, in the club's contribution to the national team, uninterrupted since the second half of 1920s and recognised as one of the most influential in international football, having performed a decisive role in the World Cup triumphs ​​ of 1934, 1982 and 2006.

A second football team, IFK Malmö played in Sweden's top flight for about 20 years and the club's quarterfinal in the European Cup is the club's greatest achievement in its history.

The Vikings became the second team in football history to miss the playoffs after getting off to a 6 – 0 start.

The city's main football club, Ahi Nazareth, currently plays in Liga Leumit, the second tier of Israeli football.

The second, still occasionally seen in major-college football, is the use of different quarterbacks in different game or down / distance situations.

However, mercy rules usually do not take effect until a prescribed point in the game ( e. g., the second half of an Association football game ).

For instance, in American football, one team could be ahead by 70 points with three minutes left in the first half ; in baseball, the better team could have a 20-run lead in the second inning, but the game would continue.

In high school basketball, many states have a " continuous clock " rule, similar to American football, which takes effect in the second half after a lead grows to a prescribed point ( e. g., in Iowa, 35 points or more ).

Bobby Ross became the second coach, after Jimmy Johnson in Super Bowl XXVII, to lead a team to a college football national championship ( Georgia Tech in 1990 ) and a Super Bowl.

Barry Switzer became the second head coach, after former Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson, to win a college football national championship ( University of Oklahoma 1974, 1975, 1985 ) and a Super Bowl title.

Bergkamp was consoled with the PFA Players ' Player of the Year award, becoming only the second foreign player to be recognised by his fellow professionals as the outstanding performer in English football.

Donegal's inter-county football team have won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship title twice ( in 1992 and 2012 ). Donegal emerged victorious from the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final on 23 September 2012 to take the Sam Maguire Cup for the second time, with early goals from Michael Murphy and Kevin ' Duck ' Mc Dermott shattering a weak Mayo resistance.