The term " chicano " may have come from Mexican immigrants to the U. S. during the 1920s and 1930s, but by those originated from Chihuahua ( not the term " Chi -" hua-hua " when they came into Texas where the locals made fun of the way the Chihuahuan Mexicans, primarily indigenous rural peasants, spoke a " less common " dialect of Spanish ).

Cretin became a medical term in the 18th century, from an Alpine French dialect prevalent in a region where persons with such a condition were especially common ( see below ); it saw wide medical use in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and then spread more widely in popular English as a markedly derogatory term for a person who behaves stupidly.

The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class.

Where a distinction can be made only in terms of pronunciation, the term accent is appropriate, not dialect.

The term dialect is used in two distinct ways.

However, the term dialect always implies a relation between languages: if language X is called a dialect, this implies that the speaker considers X a dialect of some other language Y, which then usually is some standard language.

The Romans used the term indicum, which passed into Italian dialect and eventually into English as the word indigo.

The alternative term Běifānghuà (), or " Northern dialect ( s )", is used less and less among Chinese linguists.

The term Provençal ( Occitan: provençal, provençau or prouvençau, ) may be used as a traditional synonym for Occitan but, nowadays, “ Provençal ” is mainly understood as an Occitan dialect spoken in Provence.

:“ Usually it is called the < Kashubian language >, although the < Pomeranian-Slovenian dialect > would be a more proper term ”

It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning " to converse ", and very soon after that in its present usage as a term denoting the musical style.

Osteomalacia is the term used to describe a similar condition occurring in adults, generally due to a deficiency of vitamin D. The origin of the word " rickets " is probably from the Old English dialect word ' wrickken ', to twist.

The derived term " Scandinavian " also refers to the North Germanic peoples who speak Scandinavian languages, considered to be a dialect continuum derived from Old Norse.

The first recorded use of the term " luge " is 1905, from the Savoy / Swiss dialect of French " luge " meaning " small coasting sled ", and is possibly from a Gaulish word with the same root as English sled.

Some linguistic scholars assert that the term " Kurdish " has been applied extrinsically in describing the language the Kurds speak, while Kurds have used the word " Kurdish " to simply describe their ethnic or national identity and refer to their language as Kurmanji, Sorani, Hewrami, Kermanshahi, Kalhery or whatever other dialect or language they speak.

More likely etymologies include northern UK dialect naffhead, naffin, or naffy, a simpleton or blockhead ; niffy-naffy, inconsequential, stupid, or Scots nyaff, a term of contempt for any unpleasant or objectionable person.

The Akkadian word Shumer may represent the geographical name in dialect, but the phonological development leading to the Akkadian term šumerû is uncertain.

It was popular knowledge in Germany that Walter appeared to play better the worse the weather was, and so now the term " Fritz Walter's weather " is used to describe rainy weather conditions, often rendered with odd local dialect grammar " of Fritz, his weather ".

Some non-Chinese Hmong advocate that the term Hmong be used not only for designating their dialect group, but also for the other Miao groups living in China.

The term possibly originated as a jocular reference to the Doric dialect of the Ancient Greek language.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The variable costs alone are assigned to the different units of freight traffic as representing `` long-run out-of-pocket costs '' -- a term with a meaning here not distinctly different from that of the economist's `` long-run marginal costs ''.

The K factor, a term used to denote the rate of heat transmission through a material ( B.t.u./sq. ft. of material/hr./*0F./in. of thickness ) ranges from 0.24 to 0.28 for flexible urethane foams and from 0.12 to 0.16 for rigid urethane foams, depending upon the formulation, density, cell size, and nature of blowing agents used.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

The term " arithmetic mean " is preferred in mathematics and statistics because it helps distinguish it from other means such as the geometric and harmonic mean.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic as late as the mid-19th century.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

The term allocution differs from distribution as distribution implies that the original party loses some kind of control over the information.

Anatolia ( from Greek — " east " or "( sun ) rise "; also Asia Minor, from " small Asia "; in modern ) is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey.

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

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

The Senate also has 18 members, elected for a four year term by and from the chiefs of the islands.

In the 20 years following Bligh's campaign the term " The Ashes " largely disappeared from public use.