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In modern slang, some native speakers may pronounce ‹ W › more closely to the origin of the loanword than the official / v / pronunciation.
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In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.
In the film, Cooper plays a sheltered, intellectual linguist who is writing an encyclopedia with six other scientists, and hires street-wise Stanwyck to help them with modern slang terms.
and created much of modern hacker slang and culture.
The latter probably lent its name to the modern slang term.
The modern fish-and-chip shop (" chippy " or " chipper " in modern British slang
In modern usage the slang term bitch has different meanings depending largely on social context and may vary from very offensive to endearing, and as with many slang terms its meaning and nuances can vary depending on the region in which it is used.
* The police force, known as sbirri (" cops " in modern Italian slang ), was billeted in private houses ( normally a practice of military occupation ) and enforced order quite rigorously.
A significant part of modern computer / Web / Internet slang, abbreviations, etc.
Asian pride in modern slang refers mostly to those of East Asian descent, though it can include anyone of Asian descent.
Through the same linguistic route, cods became a modern slang term for the male genitalia.
The youngest, Professor Bertram Potts ( Gary Cooper ), is a grammarian who is researching modern American slang.
In modern Russian slang only these names are used:
In some computer users ' slang " the Elder Days " means the period before about 1980, before many modern computer developments started.
* engrupir-to fool someone ( origin unknown, but also used in modern European and Brazilian Portuguese slang )
Because of persistent debate, answered and unanswered questions, and conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the possible related role of the grassy knoll, the term " grassy knoll " has come to also be a modern slang expression indicating suspicion, conspiracy, or a cover-up.
Although there are differences, modern gay slang has adopted many Polari words, as detailed in the table below:
This genre of music is very typically French and differs from most in that emphasis is placed on appreciation of the lyrics and that it is linked to a specific culture of modern " guinche " ( slang for " guinguette ") appreciated a lot by Bobos among others.
This dialogue frequently makes use of slang words invented by the author, as a substitute for words that were, in the 1970s, typically taboo to speak about in modern western culture.
In modern use, it is used as a slang term, especially in Yorkshire, for a gossipy or overly talkative person.
The dialect has roots in older languages such as Old English and Old Norse ; it should not be confused with modern slang.
A similar word in modern Irish slang " Gigh " ( pronounced ) also exists, further confusing the possible origin of the name.
The term is still unofficially used in Quebec, Acadian and Franco-Ontarian slang as a reference to the Canadian dollar ( the official French term for the modern Canadian dollar is dollar ).
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Not discussed here are some military problems of modern times such as undersea warfare, where the surveillance, sending, transmitting, and receiving are all so inadequate that networks and decision making are not the bottlenecks.
We are learning how to do these things in some of the vast organized structures of modern society ; ;
These additional modern bombers will replace some of the older B-47 medium bombers ; ;
Time and again in counseling and teaching, one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern world are only too painfully obvious.
To say this, of course, is to take up a position on one side of a controversy going on now for some two hundred years, or, at any rate, since the beginning of the distinctively modern period in theological thought.
It required a repudiation of some Aristotelian principles for the sciences and the arts to free themselves for the discovery of modern scientific laws and empirical methods.
Their vivid anecdotal qualities have made favorites some of them of painters since the Renaissance, so that they stand out more prominently in the modern imagination.
According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.
* Overview of modern and some ancient writing systems.
In some of its facets anatomy is closely related to embryology, comparative anatomy and comparative embryology, in line with modern teaching methods.
In modern times, some idioms refer to the ocean in a humorously diminutive way as the Pond, describing both the geographical and cultural divide between North America and Europe, in particular between the English-speaking nations of both continents.
However, most modern abjads, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Avestan, are " impure " abjads, that is, they also contain symbols for some of the vowel phonemes.
Agrarianism concentrates on the fundamental goods of the earth, communities of more limited economic and political scale than in modern society, and on simple living — even when this shift involves questioning the " progressive " character of some recent social and economic developments.
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.
To quote the Encyclopædia Britannicas article on Arianism: " In modern times some Unitarians are virtually Arians in that they are unwilling either to reduce Christ to a mere human being or to attribute to him a divine nature identical with that of the Father.
) Like the central processing unit ( CPU ) in a modern computer, the mill would rely upon its own internal procedures, to be stored in the form of pegs inserted into rotating drums called " barrels ", to carry out some of the more complex instructions the user's program might specify.
Additionally, some modern ethnomycologists, such as Danny Staples, identify ambrosia with the untameable hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria: " it was the food of the gods, their ambrosia, and nectar was the pressed sap of its juices ", Staples asserts.
However, the connection that has derived ambrosia from the Greek prefix a-(" not ") and the word brotos (" mortal "), hence the food or drink of the immortals, has been questioned as coincidental by some modern linguists.
Since the 1970s, self-help books, psychology, and some modern expressions of Christianity have viewed this disparity in terms of grace being an innate quality within all people who must be inspired or strong enough to find it: something to achieve.
It is therefore not unlikely that some Gnostics used amulets, though the confident assertions of modern writers to this effect rest on no authority.
In October 1844, Hasan Ali Shah left Sind for Bombay, passing through Cutch ( modern day Kutch ) and Kathiawar where he spent some time visiting the communities of his followers in the area.
However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.
Their logo of the anchor and dolphin is represented today in the symbols and names used by some modern publishers such as Doubleday.
Some wanted the modern liberal constitutional system, some wanted the continuance of the Ancien Régime, some wanted independence.
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