The Ancient Greek aphorism " Know thyself ", Greek:, English phonetics pronunciation: ( also with the ε contracted ), was inscribed in the pronaos ( forecourt ) of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi according to the Greek periegetic ( travelogue ) writer Pausanias ( 10. 24. 1 ).

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky note in their book that Orwellian Doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called ‘ dichotomization ’; a component of media propaganda involving ‘ deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news ’.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines eschatology as " The department of theological science concerned with ‘ the four last things: death, judgement, heaven, and hell ’.

Consider roim ‘ crime ’ versus English crime or taunima ‘ to condemn, disapprove ’ versus Finnish tuomita ‘ to condemn, to judge ’ ( these Aavikisms appear in Aavik ’ s 1921 dictionary ).

Phonetic transcriptions of foreign words, such as the transformation of ‘ impossible ’ into ‘ impossibru ’ in Japanese and then back to English, is also observed.

An English translation, entitled A Sovereign Antidote against Arian Poyson, appeared in London, 1719, and again ‘ revised, corrected, and, in a few places, abridged, by Abraham Booth ,’ under the title of The Deity of Jesus Christ essential to the Christian Religion, 1777.

‘ The Old English kenning: A characteristic feature of Germanic poetical diction ?’ Modern Philology 67: 2, pp. 109 – 117.

In 1998, the term open source was suggested as a substitute to free software because it avoided the ambiguous double-meaning of ‘ free ’ in English and was not as value-laden as the term free software.

The economist Sidney D Merlin introduced the English word as an academic term in 1943, in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, writing that the Nazi Party ‘ facilitates the accumulation of private fortunes and industrial empires by its foremost members and collaborators through “ privatisation ” and other measures, thereby intensifying centralisation of economic affairs and government in an increasingly narrow group that may for all practical purposes be termed the national socialist elite ’.

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

As a matter of example, the English sentence ‘ The sky was blue?

According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘ someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country ’.

* Woolston ( 2008 ), Jennifer M. “ Lady Audley as the Cunning ‘ Other ’: An Economic, Sexual, and Criminal Attack on the Victorian Patriarchal Mindset ,” English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities ( EAPSU ) Online, Vol.

A person who practices benevolent magic " is not called saahir or sahhaar ( sorcerer, witch ), but is normally referred to as shaikh ( or shaikha for a female ), a title which is normally used to refer to a clergyman or a community notable or elder, and is equal to the English title: ‘ Reverend .’"

Window replaced the Old English ‘ eagþyrl ’, which literally means ‘ eye-hole ,’ and ‘ eagduru ’ ‘ eye-door ’.

In the liner notes of the cd, “ the English words ‘ What are they sayin?

The 1561 English translation by Thomas Hoby had a great influence on the English upper class's conception of English gentlemen.

Sober homages to early Xing scholars ' furnishings were also naturalized, as the tang evolved into a mid-Georgian side table and squared slat-back armchairs that suited English gentlemen as well as Chinese scholars.

The Anjou courtship, at the end of which Leicester and several dozen noblemen and gentlemen escorted the French prince in triumph to Antwerp, also touched the question of English intervention in the Netherlands to help the rebellious provinces.

File: A Midnight Modern Conversation. jpg | Midnight Modern Conversation ( William Hogarth, 1733 ): English gentlemen sharing alcoholic punch.

As a practical matter, the legal sport of pugilism replaced duelling for most English gentlemen near this time.

In doing this he was part of a more general retreat of Royalist gentlemen into the English countryside, in the aftermath of the English Civil War, a move summed up by his friend Charles Cotton's well-known poem " The Retirement " ( first published in the 5th Edition of Walton Compleat Angler ).

The doctrine which The United Irishman was to follow was stated as follows: " that the Irish people had a distinct and indefeasible right to their country, and to all the moral and material wealth and resources thereof, to possess, to govern the same, for their own use, maintenance, comfort and honour, as a distinct Sovereign State ; that it was within their power and their manifest duty to make good and exercise that right ; that the life of one peasant was as precious as the life of one nobleman or gentleman ; that the property of the farmers and labourers of Ireland was as sacred as the property of all the noblemen and gentlemen in Ireland, and also immeasurably more valuable ; that the Tenant Right custom should be extended to all Ulster, and adopted and enforced by common consent in the other three provinces ; that every man who paid taxes should have an equal voice with every other man in the government of the State and the outlay of those taxes ; that no man at present had any ' legal ' rights or claim to the protection of any law and that all ' legal ' and constitutional agitation in Ireland was a delusion ; that every freeman, and every man who desired to become free, ought to have arms, and to practise the use of them ; that no ' combination of classes ' in Ireland was desirable, just, or possible save on the terms of the rights of the industrious classes being acknowledged and secured ; and that no good thing could come from the English Parliament or the English Government ".

Among English gentlemen I lived in misery, like a poor dog that had strayed among a pack of wolves.

One extinct English usage of the term was to distinguish between men of the upper and lower gentry, who were " esquires " and " gentlemen " respectively ( between, for example, " Thomas Smith, Esq.

Their English governess, Lady Sophy, explains how young ladies should behave when approached by amorous gentlemen (" Bold-faced ranger ").

This detail is possibly a nostalgic reference, reminiscent of a Victorian English eccentricity in which gentlemen were frequently, and stereotypically depicted ( e. g. Punch cartoons of the period 1875 – 90 ) wearing a loose-fitting robe smoking jacket and braided fez-like smoking cap when relaxing informally at home.

Stead's account was widely translated and the revelation of " padded rooms for the purpose of stifling the cries of the tortured victims of lust and brutality " and the symbolic figure of " The Minotaur of London " confirmed European observers worst imaginings about " Le Sadisme anglais " and inspired erotic writers to write of similar scenes set in London or involving sadistic English gentlemen.

Here, Foote satirized the boorish behaviour of English gentlemen abroad.

upon all the treasure that should be found ; that, unless that was immediately complied with, he would disclose the whole to the nabob ; and that Mr. Watts, and the two other English gentlemen then at the court, should be cut off before the morning.

In regard to the history of the song, Lomax states, " The folk of seventeenth century Britain liked and admired their local highwaymen ; and in Ireland ( or Scotland ) where the gentlemen of the roads robbed English landlords, they were regarded as national patriots.

Meanwhile, the heirs of Sir Philip de Courtenay of Powderham lived quietly under the Tudors, as country gentlemen, became baronets in 1645, during the English Civil War ; and gained the title of Viscount Courtenay of Powderham in 1762, ten days before the death of the first Viscount.

Ashbee was a part of a loose intellectual fraternity of English gentlemen who discussed sexual matters with a freedom that was at odds with Victorian mores ; this fraternity included Richard Francis Burton, Richard Monckton Milnes, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and others.

On his travels he apparently did not seek the conversation of other young English gentlemen on their travels, but rather that of their tutors, with whom he could converse on congenial topics.

Thomas Chippendale's mahogany tea tables and china cabinets, especially, were embellished with fretwork glazing and railings, ca 1753-70, but sober homages to early Qing scholars ' furnishings were also naturalized, as the tang evolved into a mid-Georgian side table and squared slat-back armchairs suited English gentlemen as well as Chinese scholars.

:" The gentlemen were attired in ordinary morning costume and except for their complexion and the oriental cast of their features, they could scarcely be distinguished from their English companions.

English: If they don ’ t have Almdudler, I'll go back home!

The series follows his life and career from humble beginnings in an English provincial town, to reasonably successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement.

In his long career as an Oxford don, Bowra had contact with a considerable portion of the English literary world, either as students or as colleagues.

It ’ s key to note that presuppositions do exist in Salishan languages ; they simply don ’ t have to be shared between the speaker and listener the way they do in English and other Indo-European languages.

The name " Hoddesdon " is believed to be derived from a Saxon or Danish personal name combined with the Old English suffix " don ", meaning a down or hill.

Both surveys indicate that approximately 60 % of American English speakers preserve the contrast, while approximately 40 % make the merger, although in a more recent interview, Labov stated that " Half of this country has a merger of the word classes, cot, caught, don, dawn, hock, hawk.

The stories feature Oxford don Gervase Fen, who is a Professor of English at the university and a fellow of St Christopher's College, a fictional institution that Crispin locates next to St John's College.

He has nothing but respect for the British colonists and often refers to his own kind as being lesser humans than the English, even though many of the British, including Ellis, don ’ t respect him.

The name derives from the Old English, ' Cleve ' meaning cleave or cleft and ' don ' meaning hill,

Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

The place name is probably derived from two Old English words meaning high hill, ' don ' being taken from the Anglo-Saxon word for hill.

Samburu runners were famously misportrayed in a late 1980s Nike commercial, in which a Samburu murran ’ s words were translated into English as the Nike slogan “ Just Do It .” This was corrected by anthropologist Lee Cronk, who seeing the commercial alerted Nike and the media that the Samburu murran was actually saying ; “ I don ’ t want these.

It was here that he befriended English author E. M. Forster ( A Passage to India ) and Cambridge don G. L.

Quoted statements of speakers may be rendered into English using contractions ( e. g., “ can ’ t ,” “ won ’ t ,” “ don ’ t ,” etc.

Bredon ’ s name evolved during the Saxon period, deriving from bree ( Celtic for hill ) and don ( Old English for hill ).

The year 2005 was marked by the launch of the Russian version of VIA Gra's official website as well as by the release of three new videos: " Net nichego khuzhe ", " I don ’ t want a man " ( English version of " Net nichego khuzhe ") and " Brillianty " ( Diamonds ).

It suffered during the English Civil War, when Roundheads killed at least one Royalist don.

With a limited body of work, primarily film and video, exhibitions of his work are difficult though two important retrospectives have occurred, one at the Sweeney Art Gallery in Riverside in 1999, curated by Brad Spence with catalogue contributions by Thomas Crow, Jan Tumlir, and Brad Spence, and another organized by Camden Arts Centre, London and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, in cooperation with Kunsthalle Basel titled Bas Jan Ader – Please don ’ t leave me, accompanied by a catalogue published in English by Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, edited by Rein Wolfs, with texts by Erik Beenker and Jörg Heiser, amongst others.

The suffix " don " in Old English means a low hill in open country.

* Conflation is where two similar elements of place names become confused, for instance the Old English roots don ( hill ) and den ( valley ) are conflated in place names e. g. Willesden (' stream hill '), Croydon (' crocus valley ').

( Polycarp would often jokingly warn viewers in his Cajun-accented English " Don ’ t ask for Number One ‘ cuz dat ’ s my daddy and dey don ’ t like him anyway.

The word " bre " is of Celtic origin, and " don " is an Old English usage.

But early Visayans are short in stature and don ’ t possessed white teeth as noted by English explorer Ralph Fitch in his writing in 1591 that the idea that only wild animals has white teeth was widespread among ancient Filipinos.

The word don or den, an Old English word meaning “ a place on a hill or ascent ”, was added as a suffix.