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words and Norman
That this is due in some degree to accident is clear from the character of the words, and from the fact that several reappear and are common after the Norman Conquest.
Cohabitation with the Scandinavians resulted in a significant grammatical simplification and lexical enrichment of the Anglo-Frisian core of English ; the later Norman occupation led to the grafting onto that Germanic core of a more elaborate layer of words from the Romance branch of the European languages.
When the United States entered World War I, Eastman organized with Roger Baldwin and Norman Thomas the National Civil Liberties Bureau to protect conscientious objectors, or in her words: " To maintain something over here that will be worth coming back to when the weary war is over.
In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.
Another is to " bring forth a proposition expressed in words of Saxon origin, and give as a reason for it the very same proposition stated in words of Norman origin ", as in this example: " To allow every man an unbounded freedom of speech must always be, on the whole, advantageous to the State, for it is highly conducive to the interests of the community that each individual should enjoy a liberty perfectly unlimited of expressing his sentiments ".
Nevertheless, the Norman Invasion had still resulted in the loss of many native Anglo-Saxon words.
According to Norman Marlow ( A. N. Marlow, Senior Lecturer in Latin, Department of Classics at the university in the 1960s ), the motto " Arduus ad solem "-taken from Aeneid VI-was a play on words, relating to Manchester's geographical situation.
It would therefore have meant " one with a tail " — perhaps from the habit of animals displaying their tails in flight (" turning tail "), or from a dog's habit of putting its tail between its legs when it is afraid .. Like many other English words of French origin, this word was introduced in the English language by the French-speaking Normans, after the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
The Norman and English colonists exhibited a tendency to adopt much of the native culture and language, becoming " Gaeliziced " or in the words of some More Irish than the Irish themselves.
Norman Cameron ends one of his poems-Forgive me, sire-with the words ' awkward squad ', which plays with the above definition.
Other Germanic words in Old French appeared as a result of Norman, i. e. Viking, settlements in Normandy during the 10th century.
* Norman words: castle, cauldron, kennel, catch, cater are among Norman words introduced into English.
The Norman language also introduced ( or reinforced ) words of Norse origin such as mug.
Even Norman domination has left some words, without upsetting the existing lexical and grammatical system.
With the coming of the Renaissance, as with most other developing European languages such as German and Dutch, Latin and Ancient Greek supplanted Norman and French as the main source of new words.
A large number of Norman words were taken into Old English, with many doubling for Old English words.
Approximately 10, 000 French ( and Norman ) loan words entered Middle English, particularly terms associated with government, church, law, the military, fashion, and food.
Care however needs to be taken in identifying anglicisms as some words such as mogue ( mug ) or canne ( can ) which are often assumed to have been borrowed from English were in fact Norman words exported to England in the wake of the Norman Conquest, and words such as fliotchet ( flock ) and ridgi ( rig ) are Norman cognates of English words.

words and villa
Burlington, himself a talented amateur architect and ( in the words of Horace Walpole ) " Apollo of the Arts ", designed the villa with the aid of William Kent ( 1685 – 1748 ), who took a leading role in designing the gardens.
In other words " Harics farm's mount ", a name of Germanic origins also found in Harville ( Hairici villa, 9th century ).
Its name comes from the Spanish words villa = village and monte = mountain.
Hector Macneill was born on the 22 October 1746, in the villa of Rosebank, near Roslin ; and, to use his own words, " amidst the murmur of streams and the shades of Hawthornden, may be said to have inhaled with life the atmosphere of a poet.
The term is a compound noun made of the Spanish words villa " village, small town " and miseria " misery, dejection ".

words and are
I found myself becoming one of that group of people who, in Carlyle's words, `` are forever gazing into their own navels, anxiously asking ' Am I right, am I wrong ' ''??
In other words, as students go through college, those who are most successful academically tend to become more committed to a `` Bill of Rights '' orientation.
To achieve this destiny, acts as well as words are needed -- not only acts that lead to physical strength but also acts that lead to strength based on right doing and respect.
No one who has studied the radical Right can suppose that words are their sole staple in trade.
To all, the Foundation gives the kind of thanks which are more than thanks: to them we are grateful beyond the possibility of conveying in words how grateful we are.
Signs are meant to convey a message, and in most cases, this requires words and letters.
Poster Products Inc., Chicago, Ill.: a changeable copy and display sign which consists of an extruded impact styrene background in choice of colors, onto which are mounted snap-in letters, figures, or words screened on acetate or other types of sheet stock.
These examples are illustrative of the use of the words `` trial '' and `` experiment '' as they are used in this chapter, but they are quite flexible words and it is well not to restrict them too narrowly.
These words are more expressive than labels like `` A '' and `` not-A ''.
and which, more often than all these, conveys a welter of feelings which could in no way be conveyed by any number of words, words which are so unlike this welter in being formed and discrete from one another.
in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.
Dominant stress is of course more than extended duration, and normally centers on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone: a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center on its first syllable rather than its last.
The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.
Syllables are genuine units, but division of words and sentences into them presents great difficulties.
For the only time in the opera, words are not set according to their natural inflection ; ;
Again, as Boris feels himself nearing death, a procession files into the hall singing a hymn, its modal harmonies adding a churchly touch to the grim atmosphere: The words are hardly calculated to put the Tsar's mind at ease.
if any words or phrases are formulaic, they will be.

words and found
Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
On arrival at headquarters he had, however -- in King Stanislas' words to Glayre -- `` found such favor with Pe Potemkin that he made him his aide-de-camp and up to now does not want him to go join Paul Jones.
I think the answer is to be found in Prokofieff's own words: `` the clarity must be new, not old ''.
Later in the century the dream again found expression in the lines of Katherine Lee Bates ( 1859-1929 ), daughter and granddaughter of New England Congregational ministers, in her widely sung hymn, written in 1893, `` America The Beautiful '', with the words `` O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.
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.
Similar words are found in Korean and Vietnamese.
In certain obscure magical writings of Egyptian origin ἀβραξάς or ἀβρασάξ is found associated with other names which frequently accompany it on gems ; it is also found on the Greek metal tesseræ among other mystic words.
* Index ( publishing ), a list of words or phrases with pointers to where related material can be found in a document
They found the baptistry of the 6th century cathedral and large amounts of pottery dated to the 6th and 7th centuries AD ; in other words, the early Christian town.
However, Beethoven did not retain this version, and kept rewriting until he had found its final form, with the words < em lang =" de ">" O Freunde, nicht diese Töne "</ em > (" O friends, not these tones ").
From knowledge of books held in the library at Malmesbury Abbey and available as source works, and from the identification of certain words particular to the local dialect found in the text, the transcription may have been made there.
Jeremiah's prophecies are noted for the frequent repetitions found in them of the same words, phrases, and imagery.
In all, about 2, 700 words found in the Masoretic text are not found in the Septuagint.
* Style → There is a sudden change in style and theology after chapter 40 ; numerous key words and phrases found in one section are not found in the other.
The 850 core words of Basic English are found in Wiktionary's Basic English word list.
Explicit claims of Jesus being the Messiah are found in the Canonical Gospels in the Confession of Peter ( e. g. ) and the words of Jesus before his judges in the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus.
Joseph Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.
Smith gained a small following in the late 1820s as he was dictating the Book of Mormon, which he said was a translation of words found on a set of golden plates that had been buried near his home in western New York by an indigenous American prophet.
The use of rhyming slang has spread beyond the purely dialectal and some examples are to be found in the mainstream British English lexicon and internationally, although many users may be unaware of the origin of those words.
It is also to be noted that by anathemizing Pope Leo because of the tone and content of his tome, as per Alexandrine Theology perception, Pope Dioscorus was found guilty of doing so without due process ; in other words, the Tome of Leo was not a subject of heresy in the first place, but it was a question of questioning the reasons behind not having it either acknowledged or read at the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449.

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