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.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

The English have managed to hold onto their madrigal tradition better than anyone else.

King Eadbert and his brother Egbert oversaw the re-energising and re-organisation of the English church, with an emphasis on reforming the clergy and on the tradition of learning that Bede had begun.

The term was popularized by G. L. Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.

Although its author is unknown, its themes and subject matter are rooted in Germanic heroic poetry, in Anglo-Saxon tradition recited and cultivated by Old English poets called scops.

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

This custom is linked to an older English tradition: Since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families.

The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

She illustrates the interplay between Chinese and English cinema tradition but ultimately suggests that Jen, as the " woman warrior " of the film, overthrows the European patriarchal tradition.

Celery's surprisingly late arrival in the English kitchen is an end-product of the long tradition of seed selection needed to reduce the sap's bitterness and increase its sugars.

The tradition of using " terms of venery " or " nouns of assembly ", collective nouns that are specific to certain kinds of animals stems, from an English hunting tradition of the Late Middle Ages.

These jerseys were white, with a single bold red stripe on the sleeves and chest, and a uniquely-styled white Old English " D " ( a Detroit sports tradition, but formerly used by the Wings, Detroit Lions, and the University of Detroit Titans ) centered on the chest stripe, but not to be confused with the Old English " D " used by the Detroit Tigers.

The older mixed Vulgate / Diatessaron text type also appears to have continued as a distinct tradition, as such texts appear to underlie surviving 13th-14th century Gospel harmonies in Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle French, Middle English, Tuscan and Venetian ; although no example of this hypothetical Latin sub-text has ever been identified.

After two failed attempts ( as he felt such a great sword should not be thrown away ), he finally complies with the wounded king's request and a hand emerges from the lake to catch it, a tale which becomes attached to Bedivere instead in Malory and the English tradition.

Old English tradition preserves the ylfe exclusively as mischievous, harmful beings.

English folklore tradition holds that Jack Frost, an elfish creature, is responsible for feathery patterns of frost found on windows on cold mornings.

Notable English twentieth-century writers in the Gothic tradition include Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson, M. R. James, Hugh Walpole, and Marjorie Bowen.

From the outset the Annotations took a commanding place, especially among continental scholars, establishing a scholarly tradition for English nonconformity.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical texts, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

Upon his succession he granted the baronage a Charter of Liberties, which linked his rule of law to the Anglo-Saxon tradition, forming a basis for subsequent limitations to the rights of English kings and presaged Magna Carta, which subjected the king to law.

Murray attempts to claim that various depictions of humans with horns from European and Indian sources, ranging from the paleolithic French cave painting of " The Sorcerer " to the Indic Pashupati to the modern English Dorset Ooser, are evidence for an unbroken, Europe-wide tradition of worship of a singular Horned God.

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

Punch had a poem containing the words “ When Ivo comes back with the urn ” and when Ivo Bligh wiped out the defeat Lady Clarke, wife of Sir W. J. Clarke, who entertained the English so lavishly, found a little wooden urn, burnt a bail, put the ashes in the urn, and wrapping it in a red velvet bag, put it into her husband ’ s ( Ivo Bligh ’ s ) hands.

When it comes to the 17th century and anagrams in English or other languages, there is a great deal of documented evidence of learned interest.

It has also been speculated that the English " curd " comes from the Latin crudus (" raw ").

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

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

Bretwalda ( also brytenwalda and bretenanwealda ) is an Old English word, the first record of which comes from the late 9th century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

Clipperton's name comes from John Clipperton, an English pirate and privateer who fought the Spanish during the early 18th century, and who is said to have passed by the island.

Malandragem is a word that comes from malandro, which means a person who possesses cunning as well as malicia ( malice, in English ).

German haben ( like English have ) in fact comes from PIE * kap, ' to grasp ', and its real cognate in Latin is capere, ' to seize, grasp, capture '.

First attested in English in 1785, the word camelopardalis comes from the Latin, and it is the romanisation of the Greek " καμηλοπάρδαλις " meaning " giraffe ", from " κάμηλος " ( kamēlos ), " camel " + " πάρδαλις " ( pardalis ), " leopard ", due to its having a long neck like a camel and spots like a leopard.

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 ".

The term " contra " comes from the Spanish contra, which means against but in this case is short for, in English " the counter-revolution ".

The name " dill " comes from Old English dile, thought to have originated from a Norse or Anglo-Saxon word dylle meaning to soothe or lull, the plant having the carminative property of relieving gas.

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 ".

The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which in turn comes from Latin draconem ( nominative draco ) meaning " huge serpent, dragon ," from the Greek word δράκων, drakon ( genitive drakontos, δράκοντος ) " serpent, giant seafish ", which is believed to have come from an earlier stem drak -, a stem of derkesthai, " to see clearly ," from Proto-Indo-European derk-" to see " or " the one with the ( deadly ) glance.

The English title of the book, Ecclesiastes, comes from the Septuagint translation of Qoheleth, Ἐκκλησιαστής.

( 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.

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

The English noun fellatio comes from, which in Latin is the past participle of the verb, meaning to suck.