West Berlin issued its own postage stamps, which were often the same as West German postage stamps but with the additional word " Berlin " added.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

Moreover, the øy ( Old West Norse ey ) diphthong changed into ø as well, as in the Old Norse word for " island ".

West of the red line the definite article goes before the word as in English or German ; east of the line it takes the form of a suffix.

is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and eroge.

The word began various spellings as West Coast slang around 1912, the meaning of which varied but did not refer to music.

Most West African musicians prefer the term ' jali ' to ' griot ', which is the French word.

It is related to the West African word " mojuba ," meaning a prayer of praise and homage.

The word " mete " also exists in Old Frisian ( and to a lesser extent, modern West Frisian ) to denote important food, differentiating it from " swiets " ( sweets ) and " dierfied " ( animal feed ).

A central publication on this topic is the recent volume edited by Dixon and Aikhenvald ( 2007 ), examining the mismatch between prosodic-phonological and grammatical definitions of " word " in various Amazonian, Australian Aboriginal, Caucasian, Eskimo, Indo-European, Native North American, West African, and sign languages.

* In a 2002 episode of The West Wing, Rob Lowe ( Sam Seaborn ) and Ian McShane ( portraying a Russian negotiator ) have a conversation about how the word ' frumpy ' " onomatopoetically sounds right ".

The English word “ pear ” is probably from Common West Germanic pera, probably a loanword of Vulgar Latin pira, the plural of pirum, akin to Greek ἄπιος apios ( from Mycenaean ápisos ), which is likely of Semitic origin.

Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

The English word true is from Old English ( West Saxon ) ( ge ) tríewe, tréowe, cognate to Old Saxon ( gi ) trûui, Old High German ( ga ) triuwu ( Modern German treu " faithful "), Old Norse tryggr, Gothic triggws, all from a Proto-Germanic * trewwj-" having good faith ".

It did not however impose the Aristotelian theory of substance and accidents: it spoke only of the species ( the appearances ), not the philosophical term " accidents ", and the word " substance " was in ecclesiastical use for many centuries before Aristotelian philosophy was adopted in the West, as shown for instance by its use in the Nicene Creed which speaks of Christ having the same " οὐσία " ( Greek ) or " substantia " ( Latin ) as the Father.

The word is used in the West to refer to a specific type of Japanese straight, double-edged sword no longer in common use.

In the South West of England, where the term originated, it is also a word used for the hills themselves – particularly the high points of Dartmoor in Devon and Bodmin Moor in Cornwall.

President General Yahya Khan issued the decree, simply removing the " West ", and adding the word " Pakistan " on July 1, 1970.

This passage from Ruxton's Life in the Far West illustrates the common use of the word in spoken form, " Travler, marm, this niggur's no travler ; I ar ' a trapper, marm, a mountain-man, wagh!

Cultural: Addressing the use of nigger by black people, Cornel West said, " There's a certain rhythmic seduction to the word.

One of the earliest recorded uses of the word in the West is in the McFarland Thai-English Dictionary, published in 1944, which describes one of the meanings of bong in the Thai language as, " a bamboo waterpipe for smoking kancha, tree, hashish, or the hemp-plant.

Shuriken are commonly, and mistakenly, known in the West as " throwing stars " or " ninja stars " though they took many different shapes and designs during the time they were used.

He then tells his sidekick Calico ( voiced by Jon Lovitz ), an Exotic Shorthair, to send in the ninja cats ( voiced by Danny Mann and Billy West ) he hired to steal the research.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

Police said he became ill while parked in front of a barber shop at 229 West Pratt Street.

Her acting began with the Birmingham Repertory Company and she soon became the toast of the West End.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

Following World War II, Bonn was in the British zone of occupation, and in 1949 became the capital of West Germany.

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

In 1462, Bordeaux obtained a parliament, but regained importance only in the 16th century when it became the center of the distribution of sugar and slaves from the West Indies along with the traditional wine.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

It was the language of the upper classes until the 12th century, after which it became the language of commoners in West Brittany ( Breizh Izel ), while the nobility, followed by the bourgeoisie, adopted French.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

The adaptation, One Man, Two Guvnors, became a smash hit, transferring to the West End and in 2012 to Broadway.

Though the Bengals ran it with some success, like the West Coast Offense the scheme became more successful elsewhere, in this case with the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, where LeBeau has served two stints as defensive coordinator.

In response, Jacobs and many of the New West End congregants established the New London Synagogue, which became the center of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom.

Laissez faire economic liberals considered such measures to be an unjust imposition upon liberty, as well as a hindrance to economic development, and, as the working class in the West became increasingly prosperous, they also became more conservative.

Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.

In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies ; the Cricket World Cup became the first such tournament to be hosted on all six populated continents.

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

West Cornwall, around Mount's Bay, was traditionally thought to have been visited by metal traders from the eastern Mediterranean During the first millennium BC trade became more organised, first with the Phoenicians, who settled Gades ( Cadiz ) around 1100 BC, and later with the Greeks, who had settled Massilia ( Marseilles ) and Narbo ( Narbonne ) around 600 BC.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighboring peoples.