As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

* The origins of ` Pursuing Stacks ' This is an account of how ` Pursuing Stacks ' was written in response to a correspondence in English with Ronnie Brown and Tim Porter at Bangor, which continued until 1991.

Initially, Old English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England.

He wrote his ' Enquiries ' ( Greek — Historia ; English —( The ) Histories ) around 440 – 430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history ( the wars finally ending in 450 BC ).

The spelling Christ ( Greek Genitive:, toú Christoú ,; Nominative:, ho Christós ) in English was standardized in the 18th century, when, in the spirit of the Enlightenment, the spelling of certain words was changed to fit their Greek or Latin origins.

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

Whereas several figures common to English Country Dance, e. g. arming and the straight hey, are found in the traditional dances and display dances such as morris, ECD's origins rest among the gentry, first at court, then spreading to bourgeois-London, finally moving into country manors around England.

Although the Estonian and Germanic languages are of very different origins, one can identify many similar words in Estonian and English, for example.

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

The English term gratis has its origins in late Middle English ; from Latin.

The prefix hyper-( comes from the Greek prefix " υπερ -" and means " over " or " beyond ", while having common origins with the English word " super ") signifies the overcoming of the old linear constraints of written text.

Scholarly theories have been proposed about Hel's potential connections to figures appearing in the 11th century Old English Gospel of Nicodemus and Old Norse Bartholomeus saga postola, potential Indo-European parallels to Bhavani, Kali, and Mahakali, and her origins.

* K. B. McFarlane, The origins of religious dissent in England ( New York, Collier Books, 1966 ) ( Originally published under the title " John Wycliffe and the beginnings of English nonconformity ", 1952 ).

The origins of the English longbow are disputed.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

Two miles ( 3 km ) to the south is the former village of Old Malden from which it gets its name, whose origins go back to Anglo-Saxon times, the name being Old English for Mæl + duna = the cross on the hill.

It includes some Inuit and First Nations words ( for example tabanask, a kind of sled ), preserved archaic English words no longer found in other English dialects ( for example pook, a mound of hay ), Irish language survivals like sleveen and angishore, compound words created from English words to describe things unique to Newfoundland ( for example stun breeze, a wind of at least 20 knots ( 37 km / h )), English words which have undergone a semantic shift ( for example rind, the bark of a tree ), and unique words whose origins are unknown ( for example diddies, a nightmare ).

From its origins as a language for children of all ages, standard Smalltalk syntax uses punctuation in a manner more like English than mainstream coding languages.

The ' Green Ribbon ' was the badge of The Levellers in the English Civil Wars in which many of the members had fought and was an overt reminder of their radical origins.

American tort liability for defamatory speech or publications traces its origins to English common law.

The progress in 18th-century Paris of collecting both works of art and of curiosité, dimly echoed in the English curios, and the origins in Paris, Amsterdam and London of the modern art market have been increasingly well documented and studied since the mid-19th century.

The more immediate origins of the Elizabethan Poor Law system were deteriorating economic circumstances in sixteenth-century England.

The origins of the workhouse can be traced to the Poor Law Act of 1388, which attempted to address the labour shortages following the Black Death in England by restricting the movement of labourers, and ultimately led to the state becoming responsible for the support of the poor.

The hospital traces its origins to the Board of Commissioners ' establishment of a " Poor House " in 1834 to provide free medical care to indigents.

Its origins go back to 1956, when three research institutes – the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, the Institute of Natural Sciences, and the Institute of Jewish Studies – joined together to form the University of Tel Aviv.

The University of Pennsylvania Law School officially traces its origins to a series of lectures delivered in 1790 by James Wilson, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.

The term highly migratory species ( HMS ) has its origins in Article 64 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ).

He was a strong believer in the view that Islamic law owes its origins to Roman Law but in the opinion of Patricia Crone his arguments here are " uncharacteristically weak ".

They lived under an elaborate system of Law which had its origins in the Dreamtime.

* Napoleon Hill Yesterday and Today Issue 162-How To Hurdle Temptation On the real " origins " of the 1925 edition of Law of Success.

Baker & McKenzie was founded in 1949 but it has its origins in Russell Baker's practice opened in 1925 upon his graduation from the University of Chicago School of Law.

The Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law traces its origins to the late nineteenth century when the first of its private predecessor schools, the Indiana Law School, began operating in 1894.

Law in Modern Society explored the origins of law in the modern West and argued that there is no relation between legal, political, and economic arrangements, as is often assumed.

In two articles published in 1966, Mommsen proved the claim often advanced in the 1950s that the ideas behind " men of July 20 " were the inspiration for the 1949 Basic Law of the Federal Republic was false, Mommsen showed that the ideas of national-conservative opponents of the Nazis had their origins in the anti-Weimar right of the 1920s, that the system the national-conservatives wished to build in place of Nazism was not a democracy, and that national-conservatives wished to see a " Greater Germany " ruling over much of Central and Eastern Europe.

Meinhof's system of classification of the Hamitic languages was based on a belief that " speakers of Hamitic became largely coterminous with cattle herding peoples with essentially Caucasian origins, intrinsically different from and superior to the ' Negroes of Africa '.

The concept of a dynamical system has its origins in Newtonian mechanics.

Halliday's early paper shows that the notion of " system " has been part of his theory from its origins.

The origins of the postal system date back to antiquity, the British Postal Museum claims the oldest functioning post office in the world is on High Street in Sanquhar, Scotland.

The socio-military origins of the Banner system meant that population within each branch and their sub-divisions were hereditary and rigid.

There is no decisive theory as to the origins of the caste system in India, and globally renowned historians and archaeologists like Jim Shaffer, J. P. Mallory, Edwin Bryant, and others, have disputed the claim of " Aryan Invasion ".

The origins of the Ijazah dates back to the ijazat attadris wa ' l-ifttd (" license to teach and issue legal opinions ") in the medieval Islamic legal education system, which was equivalent to the Doctor of Laws qualification and was developed during the 9th century after the formation of the Madh ' hab legal schools.

troff can trace its origins back to a text formatting program called RUNOFF, written by Jerome H. Saltzer for MIT's CTSS operating system in the mid-1960s.

The IBM mainframe z / OS operating system / platform has arguably the most highly refined and evolved set of batch processing facilities owing to its origins, long history, and continuing evolution, and today such systems commonly support hundreds or even thousands of concurrent online and batch tasks within a single operating system image.

The realm of geochemistry extends beyond the Earth, encompassing the entire solar system and has made important contributions to the understanding of a number of processes including mantle convection, the formation of planets and the origins of granite and basalt.

Melbourne's cable tram system has its origins in the MTOC, started by Francis Boardman Clapp in 1877, with a view to operate a Melbourne tram system.

As such, the Christian cross, Jewish hexagram star and the Muslim crescent moon are seen to have their origins in different views regarding which calendar system is preferred for marking holy days.

Coptic uses a writing system almost wholly derived from the Greek alphabet, with the addition of a number of letters that have their origins in Demotic Egyptian.

Much like the Burmese adopted the Mon script ( which also has Indic origins ), the Thais adopted and modified the Khmer script to create their own writing system.

* Y-chromosome, for more information about origins of the XY sex-determination system

The y-scale ( E ) is negative because the origins of an image and the UTM coordinate system are different.

The controversy surrounding this text in particular was largely due to the way Solzhenitsyn definitively and painstakingly laid the theoretical, legal and practical origins of the Gulag system at Lenin's feet, not Stalin's.

As a creation of the mid-1970s, with no constraints to be compatible with earlier operating systems, VME is in many ways more modern in its architecture than today's Unix derivatives ( Unix was designed in the 1960s ) or Microsoft Windows ( which started as an operating system for single-user computers, and still betrays those origins ).

This was used for the development of VME / K, whose designers were not confident that a high-level language could give adequate performance, and also for the IDMS database system on account of its origins as a third-party product.

In the final chapter of Book I, Hindemith seeks to illustrate the wide-ranging relevance and applicability and of his system in analysis of music examples ranging from the early origins of European music to the contemporary.

While the AOC system has origins in the 15th century, the Languedoc-Roussillon has some appellations like the Cabardès which have existed by law only since 1999 ( Joseph 2005: 190 ).

The origins of some of the techniques studied in the Bujinkan are unclear ; however, some techniques are from the recognized Japanese martial arts traditions that comprise the system.

Basil Bernstein, a well-known British socio-linguist, devised in his book, ' Elaborated and restricted codes: their social origins and some consequences ,' a social code system he used to classify the various speech patterns for different social classes.