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.

File: Pork and cherry picnic pie. jpg | English Pork pie topped with redcurrants

Prunus laurocerasus, also known as cherry laurel, common laurel and sometimes English laurel in North America, is an evergreen species of cherry ( Prunus ), native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran.

Wasps superior fitness saw them waltz past the cherry and whites and win their first English title since 1997, by 39 points to 3.

The largest collection of haiku translated into English on any single subject is Cherry Blossom Epiphany by Robin D. Gill, which contains some 3, 000 Japanese haiku on the subject of the cherry blossom.

The Old English spelling was ċetel with initial che-like ' cherry ', Middle English ( and dialectal ) was chetel, both come ( together with German Kessel " cauldron ") ultimately from Germanic * katilaz, that was borrowed from Latin catillus, diminutive form of catīnus " deep vessel for serving or cooking food ", which in various contexts is translated as " bowl ", " deep dish ", or " funnel ".

In British English, this jump is sometimes ( confusingly ) called a cherry flip, but a toe loop is not the same as a flip jump.

Black Forest gâteau ( British English ) and Black Forest cake ( American English and Australian English ) are the English names for the German dessert Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (), literally " Black Forest cherry torte ".

The English word cherry, French cerise, Spanish cereza, and Southern Italian dialect cerasa ( standard Italian ciliegia ) all come from Classical Greek κερασός " cherry tree ", which has been identified with Cerasus.

These include the anecdote, appearing first in the 1806 edition of Weems's Life of Washington, in which a 6-year-old George barked one of his father Augustine's favorite English cherry trees with a new hatchet.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

The mayor of the town taught them English and French.

There is a fairly wide selection of models of English, German and French manufacture from which you can choose from the very small Austin 7, Citroen 2 CV, Volkswagens, Renaults to the 6-passenger Simca Beaulieu.

These agents were to ascertain the difference between English and French goods, and the prices charged the Indians.

a collection of English, French and German coins, valued at $500 ; ;

It also makes a fine introduction to the international art form with good examples of Italian and English madrigals plus several French `` chansons ''.

The Creston is purely a potboiler, with Spanish, English, French and American dances mixed into the stew.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.

The al-prefix was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an " allegation " ( the French allegeance comes from the English ).

Jean-Robert Argand introduced the term " module " ' unit of measure ' in French in 1806 specifically for the complex absolute value and it was borrowed into English in 1866 as the Latin equivalent " modulus ".

The term " absolute value " has been used in this sense since at least 1806 in French and 1857 in English.

* 1450 – Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years ' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.

He envisaged instruments in which the French late-romantic full-organ sound should work integrally with the English and German romantic reed pipes, and with the classical Alsace Silbermann organ resources and baroque flue pipes, all in registers regulated ( by stops ) to access distinct voices in fugue or counterpoint capable of combination without loss of distinctness: different voices singing together in the same music.

He and Widor collaborated on a new edition of Bach's organ works, with detailed analysis of each work in three languages ( English, French, German ).

* 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of Blenheim – English and Imperial forces are victorious over French and Bavarian troops.

* 1959 – Bruce French, English cricketer

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

" Artiste " ( the French for artist ) is a variant used in English only in this context.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.