An eyewitness recalled how awkward the red-turbaned colored women appeared as they curtseyed in the church doorway, and the diffidence the former slaves displayed while they listened to the few words that declared them free.

When the words are used, we are never sure which of the traditional meanings the user may have in mind, or to what extent his revisions and rejections of former understandings correspond to ours.

" You see ," Korzybski remarked, " I have just demonstrated that people don't just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter.

Many of Canberra's suburbs are named after former Prime Ministers, famous Australians, early settlers, or use Aboriginal words for their title.

Although the word " chalcogen " is literally taken from Greek words being " copper-former ", the meaning is more in line with " copper-ore former " or more generally, " ore-former ".

For example, the English words shirt and skirt are doublets ; the former derives from the Old English sċyrte, while the latter is loaned from Old Norse skyrta, both of which derive from the Proto-Germanic * skurtjōn -.

Lutz was also the former editor of the now defunct Quarterly Review of Doublespeak, which examines ways that jargon has polluted the public vocabulary with phrases, words and usages of words designed to obscure the meaning of plain English.

The words deism and theism are both derived from words for god: the former from Latin deus, the latter from its Greek cognate theós ( θεός ).

In Serbian, there are two similar words: magacin, representing the former, and magazin representing the latter meaning.

According to as-Sayyid ash-Sharif al-Jurjani, the Hadith Qudsi differ from the Quran in that the former are " expressed in Muhammad's words ", whereas the latter are the " direct words of God ".

Both " markka " and " penni " are similar to words used in Germany for that country's former currency, based on the same roots as the German Mark and pfennig.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

According to the historian Robin Blackburn, the words " the hireling and slave " allude to the fact that the British attackers had many ex-slaves in their ranks, who had been promised liberty and demanded to be placed in the battle line " where they might expect to meet their former masters ".

Yule is the modern English representative of the Old English words ġéol or ġéohol and ġéola or ġéoli, with the former indicating "( the 12-day festival of ) Yule " ( later: " Christmastide ") and the latter indicating "( the month of ) Yule ", whereby ǽrra ġéola referred to the period before the Yule festival ( December ) and æftera ġéola referred to the period after Yule ( January ).

The French were slow to adopt the term " humour "; in French, " humeur " and " humour " are still two different words, the former referring to a person's mood or to the archaic concept of the four humours.

Plaque on the former house of Pierre Janet | Pierre Marie Félix Janet ( 1859-1947 ), the philosopher and psychologist who first drew a connection between events in the subject's past life and present mental health, also coining the words " dissociation " and " subconscious "

These words came as a surprise to many, including former premiership teammate Matthew Lloyd who said that Hird had " changed his whole persona in regards to how he's answering his questions ... Just in regards to saying, ' I'll coach one day.

As an encore at the club's former home he re-created those words which had made him famous some 31 years earlier only using words which incorporated a Bolton theme.

In acablegram from the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States to the Secretary-General of the United Nations 15 May 1948, the former justified the action in the opening words of the Cablegram, On the occasion of the intervention of Arab States in Palestine to restore law and order and to prevent disturbances prevailing in Palestine from spreading into their territories and to check further bloodshed ,..

In the context of discussing code words used in the President's Daily Brief ( PDB ) during the Johnson and Nixon administrations, former CIA Director Richard Helms wrote:

In a Cablegram from the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States to the Secretary-General of the United Nations 15 May 1948, the former justified the action in the opening words of the Cablegram, On the occasion of the intervention of Arab States in Palestine to restore law and order and to prevent disturbances prevailing in Palestine from spreading into their territories and to check further bloodshed ,.

" " Oi " was added to the list of acceptable words in US Scrabble in 2006.

The full title was A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles ; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society ; the 352-page volume, words from A to Ant, cost 12s. 6d ( equivalent to £ 265 for 2010 ) or ( US $ 3. 25 ) at the time.

As one effect of these variations, US companies have moved to use the borrowed words that have gained name-value in fan communities, but separate them from the Japanese meaning.

US civic activist Ralph Nader coined the phrase in the early 1970s to avoid the negative connotations found in other words such as " informers " and " snitches ".

However, in the US, his words were recast as a jingoistic boast that he would dictate peace terms at the White House.

* Ephialtes is used as a synonym for traitor in modern Greek, in a comparable fashion to the usage of the words quisling or Judas in the English language or Benedict Arnold in the US.

A famous citing of a litany of four-letter ( and some longer ) vulgar words was in the US FCC's censorship of comedian George Carlin's radioplay of his comedy routine " The Seven Words You Can't Say on Television ", better known as the " Seven dirty words " skit (" shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits ", in that order ).

The US mono single mix includes an extra bar of music before the words " yellow matter custard "; an early, overdub-free mix of the song released on Anthology 2 reveals John singing the lyrics " Yellow mat -" too early — this was edited out.

A hybrid version prepared for the 1980 US Rarities LP combines the six-beat opening with the extra bar of music that precedes the words " yellow matter custard " ( from the aforementioned US mono single mix ).

For example, two episodes of the second US seasons featured words quickly displayed in the title sequence.

Here, in other words, the CS does not " predict " the US.

John Rutledge of South Carolina, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, is said to have read lengthy tracts of Iroquoian law to the other framers, beginning with the words " We, the people, to form a union, to establish peace, equity, and order ..." In October 1988, the US Congress passed Concurrent Resolution 331 to recognize the influence of the Iroquois Constitution upon the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

These facts are that the origins of the words most likely lay with practitioners on the US West Coast, centered on the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Merriam – Webster company once used a unique set of phonetic symbols in their dictionaries which permitted people from various parts of the US to learn how to pronounce new words as others who spoke with the same accent or dialect did.

The controversial 16 words used by US President George W. Bush on 28 January 2003 were:

When the seeds reached Los Angeles, a Mexican bank refused to honor Pakistan treasury's payment of US $ 100, 000, because the check contained three misspelled words.

The court's finding of Constitutionality for the phrase, as well as the justifications noted above, have made it more difficult for US separationists to challenge other constitutionally questionable practices, such as tax exemption of churches, legislative and military chaplaincies, national holidays based on religious commemorations, the " Pray for Peace " postmark, and, in classrooms, required singing of the fourth stanza of America and the Star-Spangled Banner, both of which include religious phrases, and the required recitation at government events of the US Pledge of Allegiance, modified by an Act of Congress of June 14, 1954, to include the words " under God ", especially since each of these instances are regularly used by accommodationists to justify the other instances.

The crossword compilers, Melville Jones and Leonard Dawe were questioned by MI5 who determined the appearance of the words was innocent, but after the turn of the century, a former student identified that Dawe frequently requested words from his students, many of whom were children in the same area as US military personnel.

Further to this, a former student identified that Dawe frequently requested words from his students, many of whom were children in the same area as US military personnel.

These are conventional, culture-specific gestures that can be used as replacement for words, such as the handwave used in the US for " hello " and " goodbye ".