For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Austin is a given name and surname, an English language contraction of Augustine.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1951 the English High School asked its former students for permission to re-establish the name " Alumni " for a rugby team.

The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.

George ( his last name is never revealed ) is a stereotypical English valet who enters Poirot ’ s employment in 1923 and does not leave his side until the 1970s, shortly before Poirot ’ s death.

Another popular name in English is Feast of All Souls.

It was inspired by the English garden city movement ; hence the original English name Park ( in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for " Park " is " Parc ", and the name of the place is " Parc Güell " in its original language ).

Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI.

As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it was not popular until modern times.

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Arguments for Stigand having performed the coronation, however, rely on the fact that no other English source names the ecclesiastic who performed the ceremony ; all Norman sources name Stigand as the presider.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

These scholars have claimed this element represents an Old English word amor, the name of a woodland bird.

The English name " accusative ( case )" is an Anglicisation of the Latin accūsātīvus ( cāsus ), which was translated from Ancient Greek.

Since the English Reformation, the Church of England has been more explicitly a state church and the choice is legally that of the British crown ; today it is made in the name of the Sovereign by the Prime Minister, from a shortlist of two selected by an ad hoc committee called the Crown Nominations Commission.

In English, the p of the Greek-pt-consonant cluster is typically silent at the beginning of a word ( e. g. pterodactyl, Ptolemy ), but articulated when used in combining forms preceded by a vowel, as in helicopter or the orders of insects: diptera, lepidoptera, etc.

Another characteristic of Phnom Penh speech is observed in words with an " r " either as an initial consonant or as the second member of a consonant cluster ( as in the English word " bread ").

To form the Pig Latin form of an English word the first consonant ( or consonant cluster ) is moved to the end of the word and an ay is affixed ( for example, pig yields igpay and computer yields omputercay or truancy yields uancytray ).

While in standard Russian it represents, in many Ukrainian dialects it denotes ( following a vowel and preceding a consonant ( cluster ), either within a word or at a word boundary, it denotes the allophone, and like the off-glide of in the English words " flow " and " cow ", it forms a diphthong with the preceding vowel ).

It is named after the open star cluster known in English as the Pleiades.

"), also spelled psst, is another entirely consonantal syllable-word, and its consonant cluster does not occur initially in regular English words.

The palatal nasal sound is roughly reminiscent of the English consonant cluster in " onion ".

The cluster, however, infringes the constraint for three-consonantal onsets in English.

In English, the longest possible initial cluster is three consonants, as in split and strudel, all beginning with or and ending with or ; the longest possible final cluster is five consonants, as in angsts, though that is rare and four, as in twelfths, sixths, bursts and glimpsed, is more common.

* English consonant cluster reductions

# PIE * kʷ when followed by e, i passed to c ^ ( like in English chart ) Otherwise passed to k. Same fate for PIE cluster * kw.

Languages may also differ in syllable structure ; English allows for a cluster of up to three consonants before the vowel and five after it ( e. g., straw, desks, glimpsed, strengths ).

The main cluster of rocks, which lie to the northeast, include the two principal islands of Eilean Mòr ( English: Big Isle ) and Eilean Taighe ( House Isle ).

The play presents a cluster of complex and unresolved problems for scholars of English Renaissance theatre.

Gǁana ( pronounced in English, and also spelled ǁGana, Gxana, Dxana, Xgana ) is a Khoe dialect cluster of Botswana.

The horns may have a hole in the tip to hold a cluster of plumes or flowers, and because of this have been imported to English heraldry at least once as elephant's trunks.

In some cases, the problem was resolved by allowing a resonant to become syllabic or inserting a vowel in the middle of a cluster ; e. g. Proto-Germanic akraz " field, acre " > Gothic akrs ( syllabic ), but Old English æcer ( insertion of vowel ).

Within each cluster are career-specific laboratories in which students complete industry-based projects and receive academic credit for advanced English, science, math, and technology.

The yew – hew merger is a process that occurs in some dialects of English that causes the cluster to be reduced to.

In some dialects of English, the cluster ( phonetically ) has been reduced to so that hew and yew differ only by the initial consonant sound ( i. e. and ).

On the phonological level, the redundancy of phonological rules may clarify some vagueness in spoken communication ; " a speaker may know that ' thisrip ' must be ' this rip ' and not ' thi srip ' because in English the initial consonant cluster ' sr ' is illegal " ( Pinker, 1994, p. 178 ).

In most dialects of English, the first stop of a cluster has no audible release, as in apt, doctor, or logged on.

The traditional response in English is to treat the unfamiliar cluster as containing one or more silent letters and suppress their pronunciation, more modern speakers tend to try and pronounce the unusual cluster.

The Church of England has always thought of itself not as a new foundation but rather as a reformed continuation of the ancient " English Church " ( Ecclesia Anglicana ) and a reassertion of that church's rights.

The word comes from Old English " bōc " which ( itself ) comes from the Germanic root "* bōk -", cognate to beech.

Thus understood, the centuries-old English word Χmas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas.

The name of Cuba itself, Havana, Camagüey, and many others were derived from the neo-Taíno language, and Indian words such as tobacco, hurricane and canoe were transferred to English and are used today.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

The Robotech Masters series itself was an English dub of the Japanese anime Super Dimensional Calvary Southern Cross.

English maps rarely show the French names outside of Quebec, which itself is spelled Québec in French.

Evidence for the strength of the English Dominican nuns ' vocation is strong itself.

The modern English term Easter developed from the Old English word Ēastre or Ēostre (), which itself developed prior to 899, originally referring to the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Ēostre.

( Incidentally, the date of Easter itself is fixed by an approximation of lunar cycles used in the Hebraic calendar, but according to the historian Bede the English name " Easter " comes from a pagan celebration by the Germanic tribes of the vernal ( spring ) equinox.

In English speaking countries, " Xavier " is one of the few names starting with X, and until recently was likely to follow " Francis "; in the last decade, however, " Xavier " by itself has become more popular than " Francis ", and is now one of the hundred most common male baby names in the US.

The full English spelling, ' brassiere ', is now a false friend in and of itself ( the modern French term for brassiere is soutien-gorge ).

English scholar Russell Martineau, who had studied under Bopp, gave the following tribute: “ Bopp must, more or less, directly or indirectly, be the teacher of all who at the present day study, not this language or that language, but language itself — study it either as a universal function of man, subjected, like his other mental or physical functions, to law and order, or else as an historical development, worked out by a never ceasing course of education from one form into another .”

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

English, for example, uses prepositions like " of " or " with " in front of a noun to indicate functions which in Ancient Greek or Latin would be indicated by changing ( declining ) the ending of the noun itself.

Thus, the word " haibun ", though counted as two syllables in English, is counted as four on in Japanese ( ha-i-bu-n ); and the word " on " itself, which English-speakers would view as a single syllable, comprises two on: the short vowel o and the moraic nasal

The verb comes from the Middle English blasoun, itself a derivative of the French blason meaning " shield ".

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English ( ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints ), All-Hallows-Even is itself not seen until 1556.

Fürst itself is related to English first and is thus the ' foremost ' person in his realm.

The name of hockey itself has no clear origin, though the first known mention of the word ' hockey ' in English dates to 1363.

The continued growth of the English language itself is seen by many as a kind of cultural imperialism, whether it is English in one form or English in two slightly different forms.