Suddenly the Spanish became an English in which only one word emerged with clarity and precision, `` son of a bitch '', sometimes hyphenated by vicious jabs of a beer bottle into Johnson's quivering ribs.

When the Half Moon put in at Dartmouth, England, in the fall of 1609, word of Hudson's findings leaked out, and English interest in him revived.

In his mind he spoke simultaneously the English sentence and the Martian word and felt closer grokking.

The singular alga is the Latin word for a particular seaweed and retains that meaning in English.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

For example, the spelling of the Thai word for " beer " retains a letter for the final consonant " r " present in the English word it was borrowed from, but silences it.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

" English borrowed the word from Spanish in the early 18th century.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

Thomas Henry Huxley, an English biologist, coined the word agnostic in 1869.

The word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard.

The English word Alps derives from the French and Latin Alpes, which at one time was thought to be derived from the Latin albus (" white ").

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

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The Latin-derived form of the word is " tecnicus ", from which the English words technique, technology, technical are derived.

The French word artiste ( which in French, simply means " artist ") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer ( frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville ).

The English word ' artiste ' has thus, a narrower range of meaning than the word ' artiste ' in French.

The breast spelling conforms to the Scottish and North English dialectal pronunciations.

* 4-Susan Chilcott, 40, English opera singer, breast cancer.

John XXII has traditionally been credited with having composed the prayer " Anima Christi, sanctifica me ...", which has come down to us in English as " Soul of Christ, sanctify me ..." and as the hymn, " Soul of my Saviour, sanctify my breast ".

The distinctive orange breast of both sexes contributed to the European Robin's original name of redbreast ( orange as the name of a colour was unknown in English until the sixteenth century, by which time the fruit of that name had been introduced ).

He secured all of Tromp's ships except the burnt Liefde and the sinking Spieghel on which Vice-Admiral Abraham van der Hulst had just been killed by a musket shot in the breast and returned to join van Nes and the main force by again breaking through, noticing somewhat smugly that the second time the English ships at once gave way.

Wyn Owen and Morgan ( 2008 ) cite several possibilities: Middle English momele (" to mumble "), describing the " mumbling " of the sea next to the rocks ; Latin mamillae meaning " breasts ", in reference to the breast shaped silhouette of the islands and headland, and Old Norse múli ( snout, promontory ).

This species shows marked sexual dimorphism ; the male is much larger than the female ( the reeve ), and has a breeding plumage that includes brightly coloured head tufts, bare orange facial skin, extensive black on the breast, and the large collar of ornamental feathers that inspired this bird's English name.

English Premiership sides have also adopted this standard numbering system to better aid the understanding of spectators new to the sport, thus Leicester have had to abandon their traditional letter system, though in 2011 they reinstated them by printing a small letter appropriate to the player's position underneath the club badge on the left breast.

Several changes were made to conform with the different censorship standards outside Japan, mainly due to sexual content: Katrina's age was changed from 14 in the Japanese version to 18 in the English version — due to a nude shower scene she has in the game — and the exposed breast of a dead Snatcher was covered up.

Dark navy blue jacket with the words Police, in English and Chinese, in reflective white tape, on the front left breast and back.

In the West Germanic variety that gave rise to Old English, a-mutation did not affect the second element of the diphthong */ eu / ( for which the earliest Old English texts have eu ): treulesnis " faithlessness ", steup-" step -" ( Epinal Glossary 726, 1070 ); but in other branches of West Germanic */ eu / became */ eo / unless followed by */ i / or */ w /, e. g. Old Saxon breost " breast " vs. treuwa " fidelity ".

Old English é became in Early Scots then in Middle Scots and in Modern Scots, for example: bee, breest breast, cheese, creep, deed, freend ( friend ), hear, heich ( high ), knee, seek ( sick ), sheep, sleep, teeth and wheen a few from béo, bréost, cése, créap, déd, fréond, héran, héah, cnéo, séoc, scép, slép, téþ and hwéne.

* Uniform Branch: Dark navy blue jacket with the words Police in English and Chinese in reflective white on the front left breast and back.

The bird's English name relates to its type locality, Rubeho, Morogoro ; the scientific name to the ochraceous colour on its throat and upper breast.

Having entered a wood to reconnoitre it the night before the battle of Kloster Kampen in 1760, he was suddenly surrounded by the enemy English soldiers, and defied with bayonets at his breast to utter a cry of alarm ; " To me, Auvergne!

* An example of multiple breast syndrome ( English )

The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre.

The name probably derives from the Old English bēd, or prayer ; if Bede was given the name at his birth, then his family had probably always planned for him to enter the clergy.

The word borough derives from the Old English word burh, meaning a fortified settlement.

The term " common law " originally derives from the 1150s and 1160s, when Henry II of England established the secular English tribunals.

Its English name, chive, derives from the French word cive, from cepa, the Latin word for onion.

The English " cumin " derives from the Old English cymen ( or Old French cumin ), from Latin cuminum, which is the latinisation of the Greek κύμινον ( kuminon ), cognate with Hebrew כמון ( kammon ) and Arabic كمون ( kammun ).

* In Italian musical terms used in English, it means " with " ( con means " with " in both Italian and Spanish as the word derives from Latin )

The English word celibacy derives from the Latin caelibatus, " state of being unmarried ",

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 -.

First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

However, the best modern analysis of the sources of the creed ( by A. de Halleux, in Revue Theologique de Louvain 7, 1976 ) and a reading of the acts, or proceedings, of the council ( recently translated into English ) show that the bishops considered Cyril the great authority and that even the language of ' two natures ' derives from him.

In ancient Greek, muthos, from which the English word " myth " derives, meant " story, narrative.

In the essay a blind English mathematician named Saunderson argues that since knowledge derives from the senses, then mathematics is the only form of knowledge that both he and a sighted person can agree about.

In 1651, John French published The Art of Distillation the first major English compendium of practice, though it has been claimed that much of it derives from Braunschweig's work.

The English word " dragon " derives from Greek δράκων ( drákōn ), " dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake ", which probably comes from the verb δρακεῖν ( drakeîn ) " to see clearly ".

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

The English term " empiric " derives from the Greek word ἐμπειρία, which is cognate with and translates to the Latin experientia, from which we derive the word " experience " and the related " experiment ".

Many new words can be derived simply by changing these suffixes, just as-ly derives adverbs from adjectives in English: From vidi ( to see ), we get vida ( visual ), vide ( visually ), and vido ( sight ).

The English term Friday derives from the Anglo-Saxon name for Frigg, Frige.

He notes that the English word " capricious " derives from it, " evoking the animal's skittish temperament ", adding that " the name neatly expresses two aspects of Frank Capra's personality: emotionalism and obstinacy.