In the modern English `` whodunnit '', this insinuation of latent criminality in the detective himself has almost entirely disappeared.

The Hindi alphabet must represent both Sanskrit and modern vocabulary, and so has been expanded to 58 with the khutma letters ( letters with a dot added ) to represent sounds from Persian and English.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

In modern English there are several conventions for abbreviations, and the choice may be confusing.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.

As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it was not popular until modern times.

The meaning was eventually further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws.

Lavoisier's Traité élémentaire de chimie ( Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, 1789, translated into English by Scotsman Robert Kerr ) is considered to be the first modern chemistry textbook.

Most modern English grammarians no longer use the Latin accusative / dative model, though they tend to use the terms objective for oblique, subjective for nominative, and possessive for genitive ( see Declension in English ).

Originally published in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate learning, his Steinzaltz edition of the Talmud has also been translated into English, French, Russian and Spanish.

The Shakespearean English form of the word ' brass ' can mean any bronze alloy, or copper, rather than the strict modern definition of brass.

The spelling and names in both the 1609 – 1610 Douay Old Testament ( and in the 1582 Rheims New Testament ) and the 1749 revision by Bishop Challoner ( the edition currently in print used by many Catholics, and the source of traditional Catholic spellings in English ) and in the Septuagint ( an ancient translation of the Old Testament in to Greek, which is widely used by the Eastern Orthodox instead of the Masoretic text ) differ from those spellings and names used in modern editions which are derived from the Hebrew Masoretic text.

The disputed books, included in one canon but not in others, are often called the Biblical apocrypha, a term that is sometimes used specifically ( and possibly pejoratively in English ) to describe the books in the Catholic and Orthodox canons that are absent from the Jewish Masoretic Text ( also called the Tanakh or Miqra ) and most modern Protestant Bibles.

An Old English poem such as Beowulf is very different from modern poetry.

Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

This group of languages ( Welsh, Cornish, Cumbric ) cohabited alongside English into the modern period, but due to their remoteness from the Germanic languages, influence on English was notably limited.

Botany was greatly stimulated by the appearance of the first " modern " text book, Matthias Schleiden's, published in English in 1849 as Principles of Scientific Botany.

Rather, in modern times, the various autonomous houses have formed themselves loosely into congregations ( for example, Cassinese, English, Solesmes, Subiaco, Camaldolese, Sylvestrines ) that in turn are represented in the Benedictine Confederation that came into existence through Pope Leo XIII's Apostolic Brief " Summum semper " on July 12, 1883.

However, some modern Catholic English Bibles restore the Septuagint order, such as Esther in the NAB.

The modern English pronunciation is.

Prior to this, in Old and Middle English, the word was usually spelled Crist the i being pronounced either as, preserved in the names of churches such as St Katherine Cree, or as a short, preserved in the modern pronunciation of Christmas.

On 24 April 1826 over 1, 000 men and women, many armed, gathered at Whinney Hill in Clayton-le-Moors to listen to a speaker from where they marched on Sykes ’ s Mill at Higher Grange Lane, near the site of the modern police station and Magistrate ’ s Courts, and smashed over 60 looms.

This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

Early in 1960, Kelly, an ardent Francophile and fluent French speaker, was invited by A. M. Julien, the general administrator of the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique, to select his own material and create a modern ballet for the company, the first time an American had received such an assignment.

However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

Redesigned more modern looking door panels when multi speaker stereo was ordered.

All modern telephones have a microphone to speak into, an earphone ( or ' speaker ') which reproduces the voice of the other person, a ringer which makes a sound to alert the owner when a call is coming in, and a keypad ( or on older phones a telephone dial ) to enter the telephone number of the telephone to be called.

In most modern mosques, the adhan is called from the musallah, or prayer hall, via microphone to a speaker system on the minaret.

Another noticeable difference is, that the input socket is the modern 11pin type, making it necessary for the speaker to have a separate power cord ( see below ).

The exception to this rule is keyboard amplifiers designed for the Hammond organ, such as the vintage Leslie speaker cabinet and modern recreations, which have a tube amplifier which is often turned up to add a warm, " growling " overdrive to the organ sound.

Throughout the medieval and early modern period, every speaker was an MP for a county, reflecting the implicit situation that such shire representatives were of greater standing in the house than the more numerous burgess MPs.

Caitlín Maude ( d. 1982 ), a native speaker from Conamara, wrote fluent and elegant verse with a distinctively modern sensibility.

Galwegian Gaelic seems to have lasted longer than Gaelic in other parts of Lowland Scotland, and Margaret McMurray ( d. 1760 ) of Carrick ( outside modern Galloway ) appears to be the last recorded speaker.

A Shqiptar ( Albanian ) listening to or reading Arbërisht is similar to a modern English speaker listening to or reading Shakespearean English.

The SMART Brailler combines Next Gen ease of use with modern audio / visual technology ( a speaker and digital display ) to further aid in Braille literacy.

Answers in Genesis rejects modern scientific consensus on cosmology, geology, linguistics, AiG responded: " It is sad that a speaker and ministry, which stand boldly and uncompromisingly on the authority of God ’ s Word, are eliminated from a homeschool convention.

The Olympic Stadium's superior technical infrastructure and design ensure perfect visibility from all stands ; a homogeneous sound level ( 102 decibels ) with the most modern speaker systems and a 1, 400 lux illumination at every single point.

In a typical English dictionary of 80, 000 words, which corresponds very roughly to the vocabulary of an educated English speaker, about 5 % of the words are borrowed from Greek directly, and about 25 % indirectly ( if we count modern coinages from Greek roots as Greek ).

Clarke is a frequent speaker on topics such as writing, modern history and travel.

In contrast, typical modern musical instrument amps are limited to 4 ohms speaker systems.

The early products were revised and enhanced over time with the addition of rubberized speaker surrounds and other modern features.

Banahaw is very close to the modern Tagalog words banal ( holy, sacred, divine ) and daw ( a word used in quoting another speaker ; when appended to sentences, daw indicates slight disbelief or uncertainty in the veracity of the quotation's content ).

The high-quality tuner combined with a good speaker arrangement led some reviewers to call these modern radios " Bose killers.

His father Eliezer Ben Yehuda raised him to be the first modern native speaker of Hebrew.

To Juliet Butler who has protected my brothers so faithfully I leave my sound system which is based on gel speaker technology and which should make even her collection of modern music sound reasonably nonoffensive.