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The English word jade ( alternative spellings " jaid ", " jadeite ") is derived ( via French l ' ejade and Latin ilia ) from the Spanish term piedra de ijada ( first recorded in 1565 ) or " loin stone ", from its reputed efficacy in curing ailments of the loins and kidneys.
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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.
English and jade
This high-grade serpentine ore was known as sang-i-yashm or to the English, false jade, and was used for generations by Indian craftsmen for lapidary work.
In Italian, but not in English, the term embraces all gem engraving and hardstone carving, which is the artistic carving of three-dimensional objects in semi-precious stone, normally from a single piece, for example in Chinese jade.
English and alternative
It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.
That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.
An alternative version also exists, which may reflect Attlee's use of English more closely:
Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language and is especially prevalent in dialectal English from the East End of London ; hence the alternative name, Cockney rhyming slang ( or CRS ).
English alternative rock band Coldplay released a concept album, Mylo Xyloto, in October 2011.
In public statements, Young claimed the alphabet was intended to replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternative, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English language.
The alternative English spelling, Dao, results in another mispronunciation,.
Some of these languages, e. g., in worlds of fantasy fiction, alternative universes, Earth's future, or alternate history, are presented as distorted versions or dialects of modern English or other natural language, while others are independently designed conlangs.
This has led to an alternative English common name for the bird, " garefowl " or " gairfowl ".
The eight historical Indo-European cases are as follows, with examples either of the English case or of the English syntactic alternative to case:
Leet ( or " 1337 "), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is an alternative alphabet for the English language that is used primarily on the Internet.
The next closest possible alternative was Prince Louis of France, but as the husband of Henry II's granddaughter, his claim was tenuous, and the English had been at war with the French for thirty years.
* Dhani Harrison, son of George Harrison and front-man of English electronic / alternative rock group Thenewno2, has stated that No Logo had a large influence on their 2008 release, You Are Here.
Hence, it is a popular English usage in the underground comic book Merton of the Movement, by Bobby London, while ideologically sound, an alternative term, followed a like lexical path, appearing in Bart Dickon ’ s satirical comic strips.
The game has a number of alternative English names.
An alternative spelling in English is ' vocal chords ', possibly due to the musical connotations or to confusion with the geometrical definition of the word " chord ".
An alternative etymology derives the first part from Old English weri ( to wear ); the full form in this case would be glossed as wearer of wolf skin.
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The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983.
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Hepburn is based on English phonology and has competed with the alternative Nihon-shiki romanization, which was developed in Japan as a replacement of Japanese script.
An alternative word for African Americans was the English word, " Black ", used by Thomas Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia.
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