Many other forms of music have been expertly combined with English ceilidh music including ; ska from the band Whapweasel ; Traditional Jazz from the bands Chalktown and Florida ; Funk Fusion from Ceilidhography, Climax Ceilidh Band and Licence to Ceilidh, Rock from the bands Peeping Tom, Aardvark Ceilidh Band, Touchstone and Tickled Pink ; West African and Indian influenced music from the band Boka Halattraditional ; traditional French music from the band Token Women and traditional Welsh music from Twm Twp.

* Trinculo, an English ceilidh band based in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

The Golden Lion Light Orchestra is a four-piece traditional, mainly English, ( but also Irish, French and other ) folk music and ceilidh / barn dance band.

Goronwy Thom performing during Sidmouth Folk Week, 2006Sidmouth Festival was founded as a folk dance festival in 1955 by the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ), but gradually expanded to cover ceilidh dancing, music and song, as well as related folk crafts.

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.

In French, and sometimes ( especially earlier ) also in English, the city is known as Aix-la-Chapelle ().

Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.

In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

The brown bear is sometimes referred to as the bruin, from Middle English, based on the name of the bear in History of Reynard the Fox, translated by William Caxton, from Middle Dutch bruun or bruyn, meaning brown ( the color ).

In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans — for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans ( which resemble bean seeds ), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods.

From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

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.

In Confucianism, the term " li " (), sometimes translated into English as rituals, customs, rites, etiquette, or morals, refers to any of the secular social functions of daily life, akin to the Western term for culture.

As such, Canadian English and American English are sometimes classified together as North American English, emphasizing the fact that the vast majority of outsiders even from English speaking countries ( and even Canadians and Americans themselves ), cannot distinguish Canadian English from American English by sound.

These dialects are sometimes referred to as New Englishes ( McArthur, p. 36 ); most of them inherited non-rhoticity from Southern British English.

West African English tends to be syllable-timed, and its phoneme inventory is much simpler than that of Received Pronunciation ; this sometimes affects mutual intelligibility with native varieties of English.

In continental Europe, this is sometimes also translated into English as social conservatism.

It is sometimes argued that the greatest contribution that this work made to English literature was in popularizing the literary use of the vernacular, English, rather than French or Latin.

A simple dental click is used in English to express pity or to shame someone, and sometimes to call an animal, and is written tsk!

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).

* DeviantArt, an English speaking, American based website that focuses on art, which is commonly abbreviated to ' dA '

In English, the book is commonly referred to simply as Ecclesiastes ( abbreviated " Ecc.

The name translates into English as " gold and silver scales "; it is often abbreviated to Ginrin.

The League of Nations ( abbreviated as LON in English, and SDN in its other official languages ), was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.

Adam Mickiewicz University ( abbreviated UAM in Polish, AMU in English ) is one of the most influential and biggest universities in Poland:

Radiation therapy ( in American English ), radiation oncology, or radiotherapy ( in the UK, Canada and Australia ), sometimes abbreviated to XRT or DXT, is the medical use of ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells.

In some countries, many telephone operating companies ( commonly abbreviated to telco in American English ) are in competition to provide telephone services.

In English it is abbreviated as t., ts., tsp.

A transient ischemic attack ( spelled ischaemic in British English ) ( abbreviated as TIA, often referred to as mini stroke ) is a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by ischemia ( loss of blood flow ) – either focal brain, spinal cord or retinal – without acute infarction ( tissue death ).

The essive or similaris case ( abbreviated ) carries the meaning of a temporary location or state of being, often equivalent to the English " as a ( child )".

The comitative case ( abbreviated ), also known as the associative case ( abbreviated ), is a grammatical case that denotes companionship, and is used where English would typically use preposition " with " in the sense of " in company with " or " together with " ( other uses of " with ," e. g. with the meaning of " using ," " by means of " ( I cut bread with a knife ) would correspond to the instrumental case or related cases ).

The term trace is a calque from the German Spur ( cognate with the English spoor ), which, as a function in mathematics, is often abbreviated to " Sp ".

Sussex (; abbreviated Sx ), from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (' South Saxons '), is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

Newcastle United Football Club ( often abbreviated to NUFC ) is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear.

Việt Minh (; abbreviated from Việt Nam Ðộc Lập Ðồng Minh Hội, English " League for the Independence of Vietnam ") was a communist national independence coalition formed at Pac Bo on May 19, 1941.

Conradh na Gaeilge (; abbreviated CnaG and historically known by its English name, the Gaelic League ) is a non-governmental organisation that promotes the Irish language in Ireland and elsewhere.

The Chicago Manual of Style ( abbreviated in writing as CMS or CMOS, or verbally as Chicago ) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press.

The collectivization effort was primarily orchestrated by the rank-and-file members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo ( CNT ; English: National Confederation of Labor ) and the Federación Anarquista Ibérica ( FAI ; English: Iberian Anarchist Federation ), with the two often abbreviated as CNT-FAI due to the affinity between the two organizations and the major role of the latter within the former in maintaining anarchist " purity.

It was named after the English county in which William Penn's family home lay-Berkshire, which is often abbreviated to Berks.

The airline reverted back to its abbreviated English brand name Saudia ( used from 1972 to 1996 ) from Saudi Arabian Airlines ( historic name in use until 1971 and reintroduced in 1997 ) on 29 May 2012, the name was changed to celebrate the company's entry into the SkyTeam airline alliance on that day, and it was a part of a larger rebranding initiative.

In William Caxton's pioneering printed English, it is rare except in an abbreviated the, written with a thorn and a superscript E. This was the longest-lived usage, though the substitution of Y for thorn soon became ubiquitous, leading to the common ' ye ' as in ' Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe '.

The English section of the HS website, the Helsingin Sanomat International Edition ( often abbreviated to just HSIE ) started in 1999 with the aim of informing readers of news from Finland during the Finnish presidency of the European Union.

The preterite ( abbreviated or, in American English also preterit ; aorist, simple past, past indicative, or past historic ) is the grammatical tense expressing actions that took place or were completed in the past.