Declension was greatly simplified during the Middle English period, when the accusative and dative cases of the pronouns merged into a single oblique case that also replaced the genitive case after prepositions.

Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in conjunction with sulfur and metals, and also as a pure elemental crystal.

Amethyst occurs at many localities in the United States.

The strength of adhesion depends on many factors, including the means by which it occurs.

AC-III occurs widely in eukaryotes and has important roles in many human tissues ( see below ).

This can occur particularly where the business transaction has no obvious physical location: in the case of many financial products, it may be unclear " where " the transaction occurs.

The same phenomenon occurs in Brittany, where many singers record songs in Breton, traditional or modern ( hip hop, rap, and so on.

The same number however occurs in many other mathematical contexts, where it is denoted by ( often read as " n choose k "); notably it occurs as coefficient in the binomial formula, hence its name binomial coefficient.

A similar type of investigation occurs in many mathematical theories, such as the study of continuous maps ( morphisms ) between topological spaces in topology ( the associated category is called Top ), and the study of smooth functions ( morphisms ) in manifold theory.

In practice, the transfer of electrons will always change the oxidation number, but there are many reactions that are classed as " redox " even though no electron transfer occurs ( such as those involving covalent bonds ).

The human disease occurs in two stages: an acute stage, which occurs shortly after an initial infection, and a chronic stage that develops over many years.

" Upham's book runs to almost 1, 000 pages and a quick search of the name Mather ( referring to either father, son, or ancestors ) shows that it occurs only 96 times ; Poole's critique, in book form, runs less than 70 pages but the name " Mather " occurs many times that.

Weakness in the hands and forearms occurs in many people later in life as the disease progresses.

Deforestation occurs for many reasons: trees are cut down to be used or sold as fuel ( sometimes in the form of charcoal ) or timber, while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock, plantations of commodities, and settlements.

Overlap occurs between these usages because deities or godlike entities are often identical with and / or identified by the powers and forces that are credited to them — in many cases a deity is merely a power or force personified — and these powers and forces may then be extended or granted to mortal individuals.

On many tests this occurs at all levels of ability.

The generic * þiuda-" people " occurs in many personal names such as Thiud-reks and also in the ethnonym of the Swedes from a cognate of Old English Sweo-ðēod and Old Norse: Sui-þióð ( see e. g. Sö Fv1948 ; 289 ).

However, while there are many passages where the Gospel of Barnabas sets out alternative readings to parallel pericopes found in the canonical gospels, none of the references to Muhammad by name occurs in such a synoptic passage ; and in particular, none of the " Muhammad " references in Barnabas corresponds to a " Paraclete " reference in canonical John.

Type II gambler's fallacy, as defined by Gideon Keren and Charles Lewis, occurs when a gambler underestimates how many observations are needed to detect a favorable outcome ( such as watching a roulette wheel for a length of time and then betting on the numbers that appear most often ).

The Gathering occurs in modern-day ( 1985 ) New York City, when the Highlander, who has fallen in love again despite trying to cut himself off from humanity, narrowly defeats his powerful and evil enemy, The Kurgan, whom he has encountered repeatedly over the previous centuries, and who has slain Ramírez and many others.

A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word county entirely, or use it after the name ; thus for example internet search engines show many more uses ( on Irish sites ) of " Fingal " than of either " County Fingal " or " Fingal County ".

* 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

Like coal and oil, bitumen occurs naturally and is obtained from the world's largest deposit in the Orinoco Belt in Venezuela.

There is a single species from the world's dominant frog group, family Ranidae — the Australian Wood Frog — which only occurs in the Queensland rainforests.

The Peruvian upwelling, for instance, occurs throughout most of the year, resulting in one of the world's largest marine fisheries for sardines and anchovies.

The Ojai Music Festival, founded in 1947, is an annual festival of performances by some of the world's top musicians and composers, and occurs on the first weekend after Memorial Day.

* July 1 – The world's first legal TV commercial, for Bulova watches, occurs at 2: 29 PM over WNBT ( now WNBC ) New York before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies.

The town gives its name to the world's oldest regular regatta, Cowes Week, which occurs annually in the first week of August.

The world's largest organized Dyngus Day celebration occurs in Buffalo, New York.

Creme has stated that when the " Day of Declaration " occurs, " The Christ will come on the world's television channels, linked together by satellite.

Beroe is found in all the world's oceans and seas, and the monotypic Neis occurs only near Australia ; all beroids are free-swimmers in the plankton.

Jews are exiled to a " Jewish Free State " within the former Yugoslavia, where most of this world's Holocaust occurs.

It also occurs on Chatham Island and Pitt Island / Rangiauria to the south-east of New Zealand, where it is the world's southernmost palm at 44 ° 18 ' S latitude.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

In different Indo-European languages, each of these words has a difficult etymology because of taboo deformations — a euphemism was substituted for the original, which no longer occurs in the language.

The lateral fricative occurs as the ll of Welsh, as in Lloyd, Llewelyn, and the town of Machynlleth (), as the unvoiced ' hl ' and voiced ' dl ' or ' dhl ' in the several languages of Southern Africa ( such as Xhosa and Zulu ), and in Mongolian.

This is a typical feature of Australian Aboriginal languages, where the few fricatives that exist result from changes to plosives or approximants, but also occurs in some indigenous languages of New Guinea and South America that have especially small numbers of consonants.

For example, preposition stranding occurs widely in Germanic languages and has a long history in English.

The evolution of lexicons in different languages occurs through parallel mechanisms.

In addition, different patterns often develop distinctively in different languages, so that, for example, iambic tetrameter in Russian will generally reflect a regularity in the use of accents to reinforce the meter, which does not occur, or occurs to a much lesser extent, in English.

*, as in sing, occurs only at the end of a syllable, never at the beginning ( in many other languages, such as Swahili or Thai, can appear word-initially ).

* occurs only before vowels and at the beginning of a syllable, never at the end ( a few languages, such as Arabic, or Romanian allow syllable-finally ).

The word “ pear ”, or its equivalent, occurs in all the Celtic languages, while in Slavic and other dialects, differing appellations, still referring to the same thing, are found — a diversity and multiplicity of nomenclature which led Alphonse de Candolle to infer a very ancient cultivation of the tree from the shores of the Caspian to those of the Atlantic.

Self-reference occurs in natural or formal languages when a sentence, idea or formula refers to itself.

It also occurs in some non-Indo-European languages, such as Georgian.

Most syntacticians generally concede that there are parametric points of variation between languages, although heated debate occurs over whether UG constraints are essentially universal due to being " hard-wired " ( Chomsky's Principles and Parameters approach ), a logical consequence of a specific syntactic architecture ( the Generalized Phrase Structure approach ) or the result of functional constraints on communication ( the functionalist approach ).

Negative concord occurs, but it affects the verbal subject ( as opposed to the object, as it does in languages like Spanish ).

In addition, while the segmental elements must be different in diphthongs so that, when it occurs in a language, does not contrast with though it is possible for languages to contrast and.

Vowel harmony is a type of long-distance assimilatory phonological process involving vowels that occurs in some languages.

The assimilation occurs across the entire word in many languages.

Many typologists classify both German and Dutch as V2 languages, as the verb invariantly occurs as the second element of a full clause.

* extensive homophony occurs in the modern languages.

One other use of the distinction that occurs in some languages is the expression of " mock respect ", essentially a humorous way of expressing disapproval, by the use of the formal form to address people with whom one would not normally use it, such as children or close friends.

The consonant / v / appears in parentheses because it occurs only in recent borrowings from European languages.