Today the existence of bilingual dictionaries directly from Breton into languages such as English, Dutch, German, Spanish and Welsh demonstrates the determination of a new generation to gain international recognition for Breton.

The first Canadian dictionaries of Canadian English were edited by Walter Spencer Avis and published by Gage Ltd.

The most common derivation provided in English dictionaries is from the Alpine French dialect pronunciation of the word Chrétien ("( a ) Christian "), which was a greeting there.

It was first defined by Nicolas Clément in 1824 as a unit of heat, entering French and English dictionaries between 1841 and 1867.

Carr analyzes how English dictionaries gloss Taoisms pronunciation, comparing 12 published in Great Britain ( 1933 – 1989 ) and 11 published in the United States ( 1948 – 1987 ).

Although not exactly an everyday sort of word, " gryphon " appears in most dictionaries and is understood by most literate English readers.

This is how it appears in many English dictionaries.

Austin explicates key definitions from both the Compendious ( 1806 ) and American ( 1828 ) dictionaries and brings into its discourse a range of concerns including the politics of American English, the question of national identity and culture in the early moments of American independence, and the poetics of citation and of definition.

Webster's dictionaries dominated the English speaking world.

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At first, the dictionary was unconnected to Oxford University but was the idea of a small group of intellectuals in London ; it originally was a Philological Society project conceived in London by Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall, who were dissatisfied with the current English dictionaries.

In November, Trench's report was not a list of unregistered words ; instead, it was the study On Some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries, which identified seven distinct shortcomings in contemporary dictionaries:

The Philological Society, however, ultimately realized that the number of unlisted words would be far more than the number of words in the English dictionaries of the 19th century.

The Society eventually shifted their idea from only words that were not already in English dictionaries to a more comprehensive project.

The reference to this pronunciation as Oxford English is because it was traditionally the common speech of Oxford University ; the production of dictionaries gave Oxford University prestige in matters of language.

RP is often used as the standard for English in most books on general phonology and phonetics and is represented in the pronunciation schemes of most dictionaries published in the United Kingdom.

There are two other pronunciation dictionaries in common use: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, compiled by John C Wells, and the Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English, compiled by Clive Upton.

Etymologies in English dictionaries often identify Greek words as ancestors of words used in English.

A study of major English dictionaries published in Great Britain and the United States found the most common Taoism glosses were in British sources and in American ones.

Facsimile reprints of the Unua Libro in Russian, Polish, French, German, English and Swedish, with the earliest Esperanto dictionaries for those languages.

Among leading dictionaries and encyclopedias, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers " website ", and the Oxford English Dictionary changed to " website " in 2004.

Adverbs are considered a part of speech in traditional English grammar and are still included as a part of speech in grammar taught in schools and used in dictionaries.

English dictionaries describe finger as meaning either one of the five digits including the thumb, or one of the four excluding the thumb ( in which case they are numbered from 1 to 4 starting with the index finger closest to the thumb ).

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

The English Language Liturgical Consultation ( ELLC ) is an international ecumenical group whose primary purpose is to provide ecumenically accepted texts for those who use English in their liturgy.

Although scarce, there are resources available on the internet which provide 3D animal, heart and jewelry patterns in English.

Another function of some letters in English is to provide information about the pronunciation of other letters in the word.

Some letters do not provide any information about contemporary English pronunciation.

The Joint Technical Language Service ( JTLS ) was established in 1955, drawing on members of the small Ministry of Defence technical language team and others, initially to provide standard English translations for organisational expressions in any foreign language, discover the correct English equivalents of technical terms in foreign languages and discover the correct expansions of abbreviations in any language.

Mixed traffic locomotives ( US English: general purpose or road switcher locomotives ) are built to provide elements of both requirements.

To provide an authority for religion outside of the Church, Lollards began the movement towards a translation of the Bible into the vernacular which enabled those literate in English to read the Bible.

Evidence has in some cases been ruled inadmissible because of an arrestee's poor knowledge of English and the failure of arresting officers to provide the warning in the arrestee's language.

In 2009 Al-Fayed revealed that he was a supporter of Scottish independence from the United Kingdom, announcing to the Scots that " It's time for you to waken up and detach yourselves from the English and their terrible politicians ... whatever help is needed for Scotland to regain its independence, I will provide it ... when you Scots regain your freedom, I am ready to be your

The English plural, as illustrated by dog and dogs, is an inflectional rule ; compound phrases and words like dog catcher or dishwasher provide an example of a word formation rule.

They provide unambiguous and easily understood English language words in a uniform manner in place of the original designations — which may have been unknown ( to the West ) at the time or easily confused codes.

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

The Shavian alphabet ( also known as Shaw alphabet ) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of the conventional spelling.

In 1648, during the Second English Civil War, Charles moved to The Hague, where his sister Mary and his brother-in-law William II, Prince of Orange, seemed more likely to provide substantial aid to the royalist cause than the Queen's French relations.

Margaret's uncle Charles VII, who also claimed the crown of France, agreed to the marriage of his niece to his rival on the condition that he would not have to provide the customary dowry and instead would receive the lands of Maine and Anjou from the English.

In 1320, Isabella accompanied Edward to France, to try and convince her brother, Charles IV, to provide fresh support to crush the English barons.

Blunden's next book of poems, The Shepherd, published in 1922 won the Hawthornden Prize, but his poetry, though well reviewed, did not provide enough to live on, and in 1924 he accepted the post of Professor of English at the University of Tokyo.

However, Aldington shared Hulme's conviction that experimentation with traditional Japanese verse forms could provide a way forward for avant-garde literature in English, and went often to the British Museum to examine Nishiki-e prints illustrating such poetry.

To provide field testing of the new alphabet, Read organized a lengthy public testing phase of Shavian by some 500 users from around the world who spoke different dialects of English.

The Old English poems Widsith and Beowulf, as well as works by later Scandinavian writers — notably by Saxo Grammaticus ( c. 1200 ) — provide some of the earliest references to Danes.

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