Other systems were used in the past, such as Wade-Giles, resulting in the city being spelled Beijing on newer English maps and Peking on older ones.

The mental maps of English speakers appear to contain just six basic colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

" Lithography, or printing from soft stone, largely took the place of engraving in the production of English commercial maps after about 1852.

The islands were named after the first in the Russian ( Krusenstern ) and French ( Duperrey ) maps ( 1820 ), later in the English maps.

Chinese feudal rulers with power over their particular fiefdoms were called Wang ( 王 ), roughly translated as King, but in fact somewhat amorphous and also readily maps to " duke " in English.

But subsequent English maps name the land above Baja California, New Granada, New Mexico and Florida " Nova Albion.

The German writer Stefan Heym in his novel Ahasver ( translated into English as The Wandering Jew ) maps a story of Ahasver and Lucifer against both ancient times and socialist East Germany.

The lake is named on English maps as early as 1710 as Saint Clare.

The 1607 edition included for the first time a full set of English county maps, based on the surveys of Christopher Saxton and John Norden, and engraved by William Kip and William Hole ( who also engraved the fine title page ).

* English Website about the Baarle Enclaves / with maps

The lake is named on English maps as early as 1710 as Saint Clare.

The lake is named on English maps as early as 1710 as Saint Clare.

The name of Biloxi in French was " Bilocci " ( with " fort Maurepas "), and the name was sometimes translated into English as " Fort Bilocci " on maps updated circa year 1710 / 1725.

" He wanted the work to be printed in English and he wanted maps and illustrations in the book as well.

The English name " Conney Isle " appeared on maps as early as 1690, and by 1733 the modern name, Coney Island, was used.

Although the history of Coney Island's name and its anglicization can be traced through historical maps spanning the 17th century to the present, and all the names translate to Rabbit Island in modern English, there are still those who contend that the name derives from other sources.

* English Website about the Baarle Enclaves / with maps

Smith's books and maps are considered extremely important in encouraging and supporting English colonization of the New World.

On some medieval maps of English origin the town is called Kingstown.

December 2000 English article in Le Monde diplomatique refers to some of the above-linked French-language maps.

It also shows a Xandu east of Cambalu, where English maps placed it.

This date aligns with the appearance of the problem in Knowledge, An Illustrated Magazine of Science, ( Dec 30, 1881 ) edited by Richard A. Proctor, the English astronomer who is remembered for one of the earliest maps of Mars.

On weather maps, high-pressure centers are associated with the letter H in English, or A in Spanish ( because alta is the Spanish word for high ), within the isobar with the highest pressure value.

The noun is rarely used in American English to refer to people not connected to the United States.

However, medial capitals are rarely used in formal written English and most style guides recommend against their use.

The word gospel derives from the Old English gōd-spell ( rarely godspel ), meaning " good news " or " glad tidings ".

This is similar to what is described in American English as a vacation, a word rarely used in Australia or the UK.

If the term has nonetheless retained a certain consistency in its use across these fields and would-be movements, it perhaps reflects the word ’ s position in general English usage: though the standard dictionary definition of irreal gives it the same meaning as unreal, irreal is very rarely used in comparison with unreal.

The English academic Graham Harvey noted that Pagans " rarely indulge in theology.

Another style of notation, rarely used in English, uses the suffix " is " to indicate a sharp and " es " ( only " s " after A and E ) for a flat, e. g. Fis for F, Ges for G, Es for E. This system first arose in Germany and is used in almost all European countries whose main language is not English or a Romance language.

Films based on her works tend to incorporate modern revival English Country Dance ; however, they rarely incorporate dances actually of the period and do them without the appropriate footwork and social style which make them accurate to the period.

The earliest example of the form in English appeared in 1579, but it was rarely used in Britain until the end of the 19th century.

The conservative English philosopher Roger Scruton is a representative of the intellectual wing of the Cornerstone group: his writings rarely touch on economics and instead focus on conservative perspectives concerning political, social, cultural and moral issues.

The Latinate plural " vaginae " is rarely used in English.

Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".

The English " museum " comes from the Latin word, and is pluralized as " museums " ( or rarely, " musea ").

Some of the most successful publishers of the English Renaissance, like William Ponsonby or Edward Blount, rarely published plays.

As a consequence, English law and American law diverged, with American legislators possessing no means by which to declare judicial invalidation of statutes incorrect ( with the sole exception of proposing a constitutional amendment, which is rarely successful ).

The full name of the office is the " Chairman of the Council of Ministers " ( in Polish Prezes Rady Ministrów ), but this version is very rarely used in English.

This distinction is rarely made in languages other than English.

In France, where English architecture rarely made much impression, the influence of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the church of Sainte-Geneviève ( now the Panthéon ); begun in 1757, it rises to a drum and dome similar to St Paul's, and there are other versions inspired by Wren's dome, from St Isaac's ( 1840 – 42 ) in St Petersburg to the US Capitol at Washington, D. C. ( 1855 – 65 ).

Faie became Modern English fay " a fairy "; the word is, however, rarely used, although it is well known as part of the name of the legendary sorceress Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend.

This usage is again different from that of the term " palace " in English, where there is no requirement that a palace must be in a city, but the word is rarely used for buildings other than the grandest royal residences.

While Tok Pisin is usually referred to under this name, it is also sometimes — though rarely — called New Guinea Pidgin or, in academic contexts, Melanesian Pidgin, Melanesian Pidgin English or Neo-Melanesian.

In certain regional varieties of English, " locust " can refer to the large swarming grasshopper, the cicada ( which may also swarm ), and rarely to the praying mantis (" praying locust ").

Another English culinary tradition, rarely observed today, is the consumption of a savoury course toward the conclusion of a meal.