The English plural, as illustrated by dog and dogs, is an inflectional rule ; compound phrases and words like dog catcher or dishwasher provide an example of a word formation rule.

A period ( full stop ) is sometimes written after an abbreviated word, but there are exceptions and a general lack of consensus about when this should happen.

Such etymologies often have the feel of urban legends, and can be much more colorful than the typical etymologies found in dictionaries, often involving stories of unusual practices in particular subcultures ( e. g. Oxford students from non-noble families being forced to write sine nobilitate by their name, soon abbreviated to s. nob., hence the word snob ).

The terms may be an abbreviated form of the Spanish word latinoamericano ( Latin American ).

The word Viz itself comes from the Latin words vide licet, which is usually abbreviated to " viz ", meaning " more appropriately or accurately ; namely ".

The inhabitants of Warsaw still commonly use nicknames to refer to the palace, notably Pekin ( Beijing in Polish, because of its abbreviated name PKiN ( Pałac Kultury i Nauki ), Pajac (" clown ", a word that sounds close to Pałac ), Stalin's syringe, the Elephant in Lacy Underwear, or even the Russian Wedding Cake.

An article ( abbreviated ) is a word ( or prefix or suffix ) that is with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun.

A noun phrase or nominal phrase ( abbreviated NP ) is a phrase which has a noun ( or indefinite pronoun ) as its head word, or which performs the same grammatical function as such a phrase.

" According to John T. Edge ( Donuts, an American passion 2006 ) the alternative spelling “ donut ” was invented when the New York – based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment.

Lebanon, Pennsylvania ; the word " Mount " is abbreviated in all government documents, although the U. S. Postal Service continues to use " Mount.

Overall, however, the premise is further supported by the notion that the German word for street is Strasse ( Straße, abbreviated St ).

Older generations used shorthand to be able to take notes and write faster using abbreviated symbols, rather than having to write each word.

Attorneys may use the post-nominal letters Esq., the abbreviated form of the word Esquire.

The ounce ( abbreviated: oz, the old Italian word onza, now spelled oncia ; apothecary symbol: ℥) is a unit of mass with several definitions, the most commonly used of which are equal to approximately 28 grams.

“ Pan ” may have been abbreviated for the word “ Panetaria ,” meaning mistress of the pantry, which is most likely where Philippa worked in the Ulster household.

According to the rules for taxon naming established by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses ( ICTV ), the name Filoviridae is always to be capitalized, italicized, never abbreviated, and to be preceded by the word " family ".

In grammar, a frequentative form ( abbreviated or ) of a word is one which indicates repeated action.

The reader or hearer does not have to be told that loud music has a sound, and in a newspaper headline or other abbreviated prose can even be counted upon to infer that " burglary " is a proxy for " sound of the burglary " and that the music necessarily must have been loud to drown it out, unless the burglary was relatively quiet ( this is not a trivial issue, as it may affect the legal culpability of the person who played the music ); the word " loud " may imply that the music should have been played quietly if at all.

The word carriage ( abbreviated carr or cge ) is from Old Northern French cariage, to carry in a vehicle.

Hence " long " is a heterological word, as are " abbreviated " and " monosyllabic ".

This money format was borrowed in other countries and the word florin was used, for example, in relation to the Dutch guilder ( abbreviated to Fl ) as well as the coin first issued in 1344 by Edward III of England, then valued at six shillings, composed of 108 grains ( 6. 99828 grams ) of gold with a purity of 23 carats and 3 grains ( or 23 carats )., and more recently relating to a British pre-decimal silver coin ( later nickel silver ) piece also known as a two shilling ' bit ' ( abbreviation 2 /-) worth 24 pence or one-tenth of a pound.

Some, but not all, word divisions are marked with a dot, and many of the words, especially the titles, are abbreviated.

Example: When a word is circled it means that the word should be abbreviated, or that an abbreviation should be unabbreviated.

: Note: In this section the word " tone " is abbreviated as " T ": thus T1 stands for Tone 1 ( first tone ), etc.

This is not to attempt to say what spirit is, but only to employ a commonly used word to designate or simply identify a common experience.

However, prior to 1915, the word Zahl ( simply number ) was used for an element's assigned number in the periodic table.

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 " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

A flag was later erected near the spot the ball cleared the back wall, with simply the word " HERE " upon it.

This is pointed out, however, simply to make still clearer the meaning and origin of the word ; and section V will furnish a more detailed explanation of the formation of the Breviary.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

The word maritime is an adjective that simply means " of the sea ", thus any land associated with the sea can be considered a maritime state or province ( e. g. All the provinces of Canada except Alberta and Saskatchewan border water ).

The word most commonly translated simply as " sin ", het, literally means " to go astray.

When capitalized and without modifiers ( that is, simply the Diaspora ), the term refers specifically to the Jewish diaspora ; when uncapitalized the word diaspora may be used to refer to refugee populations of other origins or ethnicities.

The paradigmatic case was, of course, the Jewish diaspora ; some dictionary definitions of diaspora, until recently, did not simply illustrate but defined the word with reference to that case.

Thus, though knowledge requires justification, truth, and belief, the word " knowledge " can't be, according to Williamson's theory, accurately regarded as simply shorthand for " justified true belief.

" And if profanity is undesirable, a person might simply forgo the offensive word, such as saying, " Kiss my you-know-what!

The word simply does not connote mutuality.

On the other hand, oaf is simply a variant of the word elf, presumably originally referring to a changeling or to someone stupefied by elvish enchantment.

At first, consideration was given to simply rebranding all stations as Enco, but that was shelved when it was learned that the word " Enco " is similar in pronunciation to a Japanese term for " stalled car.

With an adjectival or verbal root, the nominal suffix-o indicates an abstraction: parolo ( an act of speech, one's word ) from the verbal root paroli ( to speak ); belo ( beauty ) from the adjectival root bela ( beautiful ); whereas with a noun, the nominal suffix simply indicates the noun.

The name his parents gave him is unknown ; the word epíktetos ( επίκτητος ) in Greek simply means " acquired.

In some countries, it is known simply as " hockey "; however, the name field hockey is used in countries in which the word hockey is generally reserved for another form of hockey, such as ice hockey, street hockey or roller hockey.

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

In some countries, where the sport is very popular, it is known simply as " hockey "; however, the name ice hockey is used in countries in which the word hockey is generally reserved for another form of hockey, such as field hockey or street hockey.

The English word stems from a spelling-pronunciation of a French transliteration of the Russian word кнут ( knut ), which simply means " whip ".

The word koi comes from Japanese, simply meaning " carp ".