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The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

Written mostly in Latin but using an Old English boundary clause, the charter records a grant of land near the city of Rochester to Justus ' church.

The Oxford English Dictionary records its earliest known English-language usage of brainwashing in an article by Edward Hunter in New Leader published on 7 October 1950.

In British English, " gramophone " referred to any sound reproducing machine using 78 rpm gramophone records, as disc records were popularized in the UK by the Gramophone Company.

Although conventionally referred to in English today as " Peter Stuyvesant ", Stuyvesant's given name was actually " Pieter " or " Petrus "; " Peter " is not found in historical records.

It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets.

Orderic Vitalis records that late in William's life the king tried to learn to read Old English, but was unable to devote sufficient time to the effort and quickly gave up.

All the English counties south of the River Tees and River Ribble are included, and the whole work seems to have been mostly completed by 1 August 1086, when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that William received the results and that all the chief magnates swore the Salisbury Oath, a renewal of their oaths of allegiance.

It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets.

Rowland Bowen records that 1895, the year of Grace's " Indian Summer ", was the season in which marl was first used as a binding agent in the composition of English pitches, its benefit being to ensure " good lasting wickets ".

* November 5 – Gunpowder Plot: A plot by to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building and orders a search of the area ( records show 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, and Fawkes was arrested for trying to kill King James I of England and the members who were scheduled to sit together in Parliament the next day ).

The earliest records of pistachio in English are around roughly year 1400, with the spellings " pistace " and " pistacia ".

The records of the English Hospital in Rome indicate that he stayed there in June 1514, while documents in the Vatican Archives suggest that he was an agent for Archbishop of York, Cardinal Christopher Bainbridge, and handled English ecclesiastical issues before the Roman Rota.

Claims that English records dating back to 1448 mention the morris dance are open to dispute.

The Oxford English dictionary first records this use in English in 1450.

French financial records from the Crécy campaign are lost, and the estimates are less certain, though there is consensus that it was considerably larger than the English.

The death of knights and other nobility in battle generally also left traces in records, but only two English killed have been identified: the squire Robert Brente and the newly created knight Aymer Rokesley.

The name Shepton derives from the Old English scoep and tun, meaning ' the sheep enclosure '; the Domesday Book of 1086 records a settlement known as Sceaptun.

For example, one scene shows an English Literature class listening to records while students in the back row are sleeping.

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.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.

Bede is also concerned to show the unity of the English, despite the disparate kingdoms that still existed when he was writing.

Even though other clubs had taken part in the competition in the intervening decade, the team which got to this final was still the first English side to do so.

It was established to act as the English Government's banker, and to this day it still acts as the banker for HM Government.

He wrote his ' Enquiries ' ( Greek — Historia ; English —( The ) Histories ) around 440 – 430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history ( the wars finally ending in 450 BC ).

Significant elements of English common law prior to 1776 still remain in effect in many jurisdictions in the United States, because they have never been rejected by American courts or legislatures.

English is now the primary spoken language, though Mi ' kmaq, Gaelic and French are still heard.

" In modern times the masculine translation in English is also traditional and is still frequently used.

Nonetheless, the English language still enjoys status as an official language, alongside the Chinese language.

The language of Don Quixote, although still containing archaisms, is far more understandable to modern Spanish readers than is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes's language as Middle English is from Modern English.

Today English speakers generally attempt something close to the modern Spanish pronunciation when saying Quixote ( Quijote ), as, although the traditional English spelling pronunciation pronouncing the name with the value of the letter x in modern English is still sometimes used, resulting in or.

Jones had made an earlier notable attempt at a pronunciation dictionary but it was now that he produced the first edition of his famous English Pronouncing Dictionary, a work which in revised form is still in print.

As a result, many people believed and still believe that he was English.

English adventurers gave great trouble to the inhabitants in the 16th century, and the name of Magnus Heinason, a native of Streymoy, who was sent by Frederick II to clear the seas, is still celebrated in many songs and stories.

By the later stages of the Eighty Years War the Dutch had switched entirely from the heavier ships still used by the English and Spanish to the lighter frigates, carrying around 40 guns and weighing around 300 tons.

It is still reflected in the German term for the English word dowry = Mitgift, das Mitgegebene, " that which is given " ( with the wedding ).

While old-fashioned, this expression is still used in French, often mockingly, but the English gallicism to flirt has made its way and has now become an anglicism.

English is the official language ; only a few people still speak French patois.

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.