In the United Kingdom mongrel is the unique technical word for a mixed-breed dog.

In German, the word has the general meaning of hybrid, mongrel, or half-breed.

* Walton Hannah stated in his book Darkness Visible that the interpretation that Jabulon was a name for God reportedly disturbed Albert Pike, the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite, who, when he first heard the name, called it a " mongrel word " partly composed of an " appellation of the Devil ".

He was fascinated with the American urban scene, “ our native architecture with its hideous beauty, its fantastic roofs, pseudo-gothic, French Mansard, Colonial, mongrel or what not, with eye-searing color or delicate harmonies of faded paint, shouldering one another along interminable streets that taper off into swamps or dump heaps .”

[...] I was with Robert of Normandy's company and a mongrel lot we were, Britons, Normans, Flemings, Scots, Bretons-name them, they were there!

The first was an old tired-looking mongrel, the second was a lively youthful Skye terrier that ran around and reportedly fought with other dogs.

In 1984 he suggested that foreigners employed in industries should be replaced by unemployed Britons, and in 2001, shortly before his retirement as an MP, he became engulfed in a row within the Tory Party when, referring to a statement by Robin Cook that there was no such thing as a British race, he said that his constituents in Bridlington would not agree, and asked whether Robin Cook therefore thought instead that the British were a " mongrel race ".

It was described it as " the most gaudy concern I ever saw " and " a vast pile of mongrel gothic which ... is a monument of wealth, ignorance and bad taste ".

He was also described as a mongrel, a cur, and a mutt.

The pungent mixture turns out to be an abortifacient for Miss Julie's dog, which was impregnated by the gatekeeper's mongrel.

It was described as " the most gaudy concern I ever saw " and " a vast pile of mongrel gothic which ... is a monument of wealth, ignorance and bad taste ".

Lodge appealed to the patriotism of American citizens by objecting to what he saw as the weakening of national sovereignty: " I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for a league.

In his leadership address to the 1972 Fine Gael ard fheis in Cork, Cosgrave referred to the ' mongrel foxes ' who should be rooted out of the party, a reference seen by many as an attack on FitzGerald's efforts to unseat him as leader.

The novel ends with an epilogue summarizing how the Organization continued on to conquer the rest of the world and how people of other races were eliminated ( China and the entire eastern half of Asia were destroyed by prolonged bombardment with various weapons of mass destruction and made into an enormous desert ; Blacks were exterminated in Africa as well as America ; Puerto Ricans, described as " a repulsive mongrel race ", were exterminated and the island re-settled by whites ).

* Scratchy, a mongrel dog who is plagued by fleas and fur loss.

Scientists and scholars usually use the terms mongrel, mixed-breed, or random-bred dog for dogs born of breedings not supervised or deliberately planned by humans.

Millionaire socialite art dealer Radley Crown ( a Bruce Wayne incarnate voiced by Gary Owens ) and his mechanical mongrel, Dynomutt ( voiced by Frank Welker who got the inspiration for the voice from the Gertrude and Heathcliff characters of Red Skelton ), enjoy leisure time in their base of operations Big City, until alerted by the Falcon Flash.

** Mad Dog ( voiced by Stephen Ouimette )-Bugsy Vile's psychotic mongrel henchman.

These dogs are believed to be interbred from many mongrel species brought over from the mainland in the 18th century by exiled Burmese hill tribes.

He also buys a new team of dogs to replace the ones he lost: Farty, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, Trooper, a German Shepherd, Pierre, a black poodle, Barker, a large dark-brown wiry-haired mongrel, Gumly, a large St. Bernard, Snowflake, a white American bulldog, and a Jack Russell terrier named Riddles.

George owns a large mongrel dog, Timothy, who is very much part of the group and a character in his own right.

Named for the late Mrs. Ackroyd, a mongrel belonging to Barker, the band's membership has also included, at one time or another, June Tabor, Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, Norma Waterson, Martin Allcock, Bernard Wrigley, Nick Fairclough, Timothy Inman, and Ben Mepsted.

He is kind to the mongrel dog ( Zero ) that travels with him, befriends a taxi dancer ( Ida Lupino ) who becomes his moll, goes out of his way to help a crippled girl ( Joan Leslie ).

In an interview for Tulane's Jazz Archives, he described his family ancestry as " cayudle ", a Creole French term for a mutt or mongrel.

sound ") does not suffer from this mongrel heritage.

As the Cincinnati Herald asked, what would the U. S. do with eight million Mexicans " with their idol worship, heathen superstition, and degraded mongrel races?

In the days of the Gold Rush in Yukon, mongrel teams were the rule, but there were also teams of Foxhounds and Staghounds.

Meanwhile, unknown to the other clans, Ravnos arrived with the Rroma ; these Ravnos were chandalas, almost the Ravnos equivalent of Caitiff, but still felt superior to their mongrel cousins.

A mongrel is a dog of two or more breeds.

A shaggy, large black mongrel, born in the laboratory where inhumane experiments were performed on him and his companion, Snitter.

With the more finished acquaintance with classic subjects that the latter portion of the century acquired, of course the confused and mongrel shapes and decorations in furniture grew more and more distasteful, and the efforts to reach the purity of the classic were correspondingly increased.

Other terms in use in colonial era for half-castes included-creole, casco, cafuso, caburet, cattalo, citrange, griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, high yellow, hinny, hybrid, ladino, liger, mamaluco, mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel, mule, mustee, octoroon, plumcot, quadroon, quintroon, sambo, tangelo, xibaro.

He is a mongrel, but is part Russian wolfhound, and quietly proud of his bloodlines.

Mixed-breed dog A mongrel or mixed-breed dog is a dog that belongs to no recognized breed and which is not the result of intentional breeding.

When the term mixed-breed is used for mongrel with no purebred ancestors, it is technically a misnomer.

The words cur, tyke, mutt, and mongrel are used, sometimes in a derogatory manner.

The term " Cur " can be used to describe a dog of questionable, uncertain or otherwise dubious breeding-essentially, a mongrel or mutt.

In a perfectly phonemic orthography there would be a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes, so that a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.

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.

In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.

These can range from simple spelling changes and word forms to switching the entire writing system itself, as when Turkey switched from the Arabic alphabet to a Turkish alphabet of Latin origin.

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.

Abbreviations have been used as long as phonetic scripts have existed, in some sense actually being more common in early literacy, where spelling out a whole word was often avoided, initial letters commonly being used to represent words in specific application.

The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.

The can be used in Applesoft BASIC as a shortcut for " PRINT ", though spelling out the word is not only acceptable but canonical — Applesoft converted "?

Ayahuasca is the Hispanicized spelling of a word in the Quechua languages, which are spoken in the Andean states of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.

" In the later Middle English spelling balle the word coincided graphically with the French balle " ball " and " bale " which has hence been erroneously assumed to be its source.

The biggest differences are word order, small grammatical variations, addition or omission of conjunctions, and spelling variations, but these are small enough to not to damage the meaning of the text.

For instance, the British spelling of the word cheque probably relates to Canada's once-important ties to British financial institutions.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

Adult dyslexics can read with good comprehension, but they tend to read more slowly than non-dyslexics and perform more poorly at spelling and nonsense word reading, a measure of phonological awareness.

At later ages symptoms can include a difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words ( phonological awareness ), a difficulty segmenting words into individual sounds, or blending sounds to make words, a difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems, commonly very poor spelling which has been called dysorthographia ( orthographic coding ), and tendencies to omit or add letters or words when writing and reading are considered classic signs.

In dyslexia, dysgraphia is often multifactorial, due to impaired letter writing automaticity, finger motor sequencing challenges, organizational and elaborative difficulties, and impaired visual word form which makes it more difficult to retrieve the visual picture of words required for spelling.

Doctor, as a title, originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning.

The spelling is the anglicized version of the Hindi word and as a colloquial Anglo-Indian word with this meaning, it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases ( 1903 ).

To alter the pronunciation or spelling of a taboo word ( such as a swear word ) to form a euphemism is known as taboo deformation, or " minced oath ".