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.

He babbles wildly and makes animal-sounds ( but nothing Eliza can understand ), occasionally spouting blurbs of English or showing random signs of sophisticated education.

Mustard ( Senf ) is a very common accompaniment to sausages and can vary in strength, the most common version being Mittelscharf ( medium hot ), which is somewhere between traditional English and French mustards in strength.

* 1785 – Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, co-pilot of the first-ever manned flight ( 1783 ), and his companion, Pierre Romain, become the first-ever casualties of an air crash when their hot air balloon explodes during their attempt to cross the English Channel.

In US English usage, however, grilling refers to a fast process over high heat, while barbecuing refers to a slow process using indirect heat and / or hot smoke ( very similar to some forms of roasting ).

In Polish and in Hungarian, the term " papryka " and " paprika " ( respectively ) is used for all kinds of capsicum peppers ( the sweet vegetable, and the hot spicy ) as well as for dried and ground spice made from them ( named paprika in both U. S. English and Commonwealth English ).

The English assaulted the Boulevart on October 21, but the assaulters were held back by French missile fire, rope nets, scalding oil, hot coals and quicklime.

The name Agua Caliente translates into English, from Spanish, as hot water, referring to the hot springs historically found in the area.

In English speaking countries, apple pie is a dessert of enduring popularity, eaten hot or cold, on its own or with ice cream, double cream, or custard.

He haunts saloons, racetracks and pool halls, mangles the English language with Jazz Age slang, and gets into endless scrapes looking for an easy buck or a hot dame.

To keep tea pots hot after tea is first brewed, early English households employed the tea cosy, a padded fabric covering, much like a hat, that slips over the tea pot.

Repelled by the latter ’ s artillery, the French turned and fled, with English and Burgundian cavalry in hot pursuit.

Later, Oswestry was attacked by the forces of Welsh rebel leader Owain Glyndŵr during the early years of his rebellion against the English King Henry IV in 1400 ; it became known as Pentrepoeth or ' hot town ' as it was burned and nearly totally destroyed by the Welsh.

In 1798 the house was sold to George Belasise, Lord Bolingbroke and his wife Isabella ; the new owners established an English boxwood maze that still stands today and made extensive additions to the principal outbuildings of the property, established or improved a large hot house, and developed the gardens, introducing rare shrubs and trees to the grounds, and possibly laying out the grounds west of the mansion.

English folklore includes many superstitions surrounding hot cross buns.

It was called the sudarium, which translates from Latin to English as " sweat cloth ", and was used to wipe the sweat from the neck and face in hot weather.

Following two EFL textbooks — Can We Do Business: Introduction to Business English ( 1996, 2000 ); Speak Your Mind: Introduction to Debate ( 1996 ) — Arudou wrote a book about the 1999 Otaru hot springs incident.

In the English lexicon, the word " brand " originally meant anything hot or burning, such as a fire-brand, a burning stick.

Continental people have sex lives: the English have hot water bottles.

The Northampton Balloon Festival is an annual hot air balloon festival held in the English town of Northampton.

There are also many borrowings from other European languages such as English, specially words connected to technology, modern science and finance, like app, mod, layout, briefing, designer, slideshow, mouse ( computing ), forward, commodities, commercial terms like kingsize, fast food (), delivery service, self service, drive-thru, telemarketing, franchise, merchandise, but also cultural aspects such as okay, gay, vintage, junk food, hot dog, pet, lol, nerd (, rarely ), geek ( sometimes, but also and rarely ), noob, punk, skinhead (), emo (), indie (), hooligan, cool, vibe, hype, rocker, hippie, yuppie, bobo, hipster, overdose, junkie, cowboy, mullet, country, sex appeal, drag queen, queer, bro, rapper, mc, surf, skating, gospel, praise, bullying (, but much often the closer to native pronounce ), stalking (, much often closer ), etc.

Wassail ( Middle English wæs hæl, literally ' good health ' or ' be you healthy ') refers both to the salute ' Waes Hail ' and to the drink of wassail, a hot mulled cider traditionally drunk as an integral part of wassailing, an ancient southern English drinking ritual intended to ensure a good cider apple harvest the following year.

In 1882 he crossed the English Channel in a hot air balloon.