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For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.
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For a particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.
For example, out of the social evils of the English industrial revolution came the novels of Charles Dickens ; ;
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
For English the reduction in size is less striking.
For example, a writer in a recent number of The Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un-English ' ''.
For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.
For the first time, the tactic of using two express bowlers in tandem paid off as Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald crippled the English batting on a regular basis.
For example, there are more than six signs for birthday in ASL, just as in English one can say couch and sofa, or soda and pop, to mean the same thing.
For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.
For the country there is the term Usono, cognate with the English word Usonia later popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright.
For example, in English, a past tense morpheme is-ed.
For example, ( as in pin ) and ( as in spin ) are allophones for the phoneme in the English language.
For example, as in pin and as in spin are allophones for the phoneme in the English language because they cannot distinguish words ( in fact, they occur in complementary distribution ).
For a Mandarin speaker, to whom and are separate phonemes, the English distinction is much more obvious than it is to the English speaker who has learned since childhood to ignore it.
For example, English has both oral and nasal allophones of its vowels.
For instance member nations of the Commonwealth where English is not spoken natively, such as India, often closely follow British English forms, while many American English usages are followed in other countries which have been historically influenced by the United States, such as the Philippines.
For the most part American vocabulary, phonology and syntax are used, to various extents, in Canada ; therefore many prefer to refer to North American English rather than American English.
Professor Henry Higgins sings, " Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.
For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".
For and is
For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.
For one thing, the world that Beckett sees is already shattered.
Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.
For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.
For this reason, too, their language is more forthright and earthy.
For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.
For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.
For both Plato and Aristotle artistic mimesis, in contrast to the power of dialectic, is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.
For Hammer, nothing is forbidden.
For example, suppose a man wearing a $200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk, `` What time is it ''??
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.
For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.
For this love of the boy for his mother is a hopeless and forbidden love, doomed by its nature.
For innocence, of all the graces of the spirit, is I believe the one most to be prayed for.
For what we propose, however, a psychoanalyst is not necessary, even though one aim is to enable the reader to get beneath his own defenses -- his defenses of himself to himself.
For this purpose a degree of intellectual and emotional involvement is necessary ; ;
For and partly
For dairy production under such circumstances, the calf's access to the cow must be limited, for example by penning the calf and bringing the mother to it once a day after partly milking her.
For instance, in the reduction of ethyne to ethene, the catalyst is palladium ( Pd ) partly " poisoned " with lead ( II ) acetate ( Pb ( CH < sub > 3 </ sub > COO )< sub > 2 </ sub >).
For this reason, clowning is often considered an important part of training as a physical performance discipline, partly because tricky subject matter can be dealt with, but also because it requires a high level of risk and play in the performer.
For the next four years, Davis supported his habit partly with his music and partly by living the life of a hustler.
For example, Episcopalians are extraordinarily well represented among the presidents, compared to a current membership of about 2 % of the population ; this is partly because the Episcopal Church had been the Church of England before the American Revolution and was the state religion in some states ( such as New York and Virginia ).
For example, Tony Blair, whose Labour party was elected in 1997 partly on a promise to enact a British Bill of Rights and to create devolved governments for Scotland and Wales, subsequently stewarded through Parliament the Human Rights Act ( 1998 ), the Scotland Act ( 1998 ) and the Government of Wales Act ( 1998 ).
* Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit by Aleph One, published in issue 49, is the " classic paper " on stack buffer overflows, partly responsible for popularizing the vulnerability.
For example, there is doubt about whether it is distinct from high-functioning autism ( HFA ); partly because of this, its prevalence is not firmly established.
When Gérôme exhibited For Sale ; Slaves at Cairo at the Royal Academy in London in 1871, it was " widely found offensive ", perhaps partly because the British liked to think they had successfully suppressed the slave trade in Egypt, also for cruelty and " representing fleshiness for its own sake ".
" For researchers, the term is popular partly due to the broad range of outcomes it can explain ; the multiplicity of uses for social capital has led to a multiplicity of definitions.
For a metal, the Fermi level is inside the conduction band, indicating that the band is partly filled.
For some reason, settlement persisted at the same spot, and gradually the site rose above the marshes-partly from the accumulation of debris, and partly through the efforts of the inhabitants.
For a duration of three days, they were graciously taken into the homes of Brooksville families because the new Tangerine hotel was only partly ready for occupancy.
For a long time, a large rowan tree flourished in the front yard of the church, perhaps partly to keep these evil spirits away.
For the seven subsequent years he worked in Edinburgh, some of his attention being given to a " black and white " style, his practice in which having been partly acquired at a sketch club, which, in addition to Hutchison, included among its members Hugh Cameron, Peter Graham, George Hay and William McTaggart.
For horticultural purposes, all Narcissus cultivars are split into 13 divisions by the Royal Horticultural Society, based partly upon flower form and partly upon genetic background.
Beginning on September 3, 2007, For Better or For Worse changed to a format featuring a mixture of new, old and retouched work, which allowed Johnston to " keep alive her partly autobiographical comic while not having to devote as much time to it.
For example, the sentence " The ground is thirsty " is partly figurative: " Ground " has a literal meaning, but the ground is not alive and therefore neither needs to drink nor feels thirst.
For trains there is partly a common tariff system with the other four public transport railroad companies in the country.
For general carpentry, hornbeam is rarely used, partly due to the difficulty of working it.
* This article is partly based on a Quicksilver wiki article at A Glossary of Terms For Traditional Timber Framing ( Timberbee ) under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
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