In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

The meaning was eventually further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws.

The term was popularized by G. L. Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.

BrE usage varies, with some authoritative sources such as The Economist and The Times recommending the same usage as in the US, whereas other authoritative sources, such as The King's English, recommend single quotation marks.

In English usage, the genitive " of Æsir faith " is often used on its own to denote adherents ( both singular and plural ).

The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.

The expression " Common Era " can be found as early as 1708 in English, and traced back to Latin usage among European Christians to 1615, as vulgaris aerae, and to 1635 in English as Vulgar Era.

Second language varieties of English in Africa and Asia have often undergone " indigenisation "; that is, each English-speaking community has developed ( or is in the process of developing ) its own standards of usage, often under the influence of local languages.

In English outside of North America, full dates are written as 7 December 1941 ( or 7th December 1941 ) and spoken as " the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one " ( exceedingly common usage of " the " and " of "), with the occasional usage of December 7, 1941 (" December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ").

For example, it is correct British English or American English usage to say: " None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

The English word Dravidian was first employed by Robert Caldwell in his book of comparative Dravidian grammar based on the usage of the Sanskrit word in the work Tantravārttika by ( Zvelebil 1990 p. xx ).

While the dative case is no longer a part of modern English usage, it survives in a few set expressions.

Loanwords that frequently appear with the diacritic in English include café, résumé or resumé ( a usage that helps distinguish it from the verb resume ), soufflé, and naïveté ( see English words with diacritics ).

" The Greek and Latin term referred to any great serpent, not necessarily mythological, and this usage was also current in English up to the 18th century.

The earliest known usage in print of the English term deist is 1621,

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.

When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.

In his mind he spoke simultaneously the English sentence and the Martian word and felt closer grokking.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

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.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

The word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard.

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

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The Latin-derived form of the word is " tecnicus ", from which the English words technique, technology, technical are derived.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

The English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.

A slingshot, shanghai, flip, bean shooter, Wrist-Rocket or catapult ( primarily British English ) is a small hand-powered projectile weapon.

The English and scientific names of the Bean Goose come from its habit in the past of grazing in bean field stubbles in winter ( Latin faba, a bean ).

Other popular Indonesian street food and snacks are siomay and batagor ( abbreviated from Bakso Tahu Goreng ), deep fried fish cake pempek, bubur ayam ( chicken congee ), bubur kacang hijau ( mung beans porridge ), satay, nasi goreng ( English: fried rice ) and mie goreng ( English: fried noodle ), taoge goreng ( mung bean sprouts and noodle salad ), asinan ( preserved vegetables or fruits salad ), laksa, kerak telor ( spicy omelette ), gorengan ( Indonesian assorted fritters ) and Bakwan ( fried dish of beansprouts and batter ).

" The choosing of King and Queen from the pie, usually by the inclusion of a bean and a pea, was a traditional English Twelfth Night festivity.

In English and French custom, the Twelfth-cake was baked to contain a bean and a pea, so that those who received the slices containing them should be designated king and queen of the night's festivities.

As in Europe, whoever found the baked-in bean was king for a day, but unique to English tradition other items were sometimes included in the cake.

Often referred to in English as chili bean sauce.

Translation of the term into English includes sweet bean sauce, sweet bean paste, sweet soybean paste, sweet flour sauce, or sweet noodle sauce.

Sweet bean sauce can be found in typical Asian supermarkets under various English names, but with a common Chinese name ( 甜麵醬 ).

* Sweet bean sauce ( on the left, mislabeled in English as hoisin sauce )

Green beans, also known as French beans ( British English ), string beans in the northeastern and western United States, snap beans or squeaky beans, are the unripe fruit of specific cultivated varieties of the common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris ).

According to etymological research recorded in dictionaries, the word in fact probably comes from dialectal been or bean ( meaning " help given by neighbors "), which came from Middle English bene ( meaning " prayer ", " boon " and " extra service by a tenant to his lord ")