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Words and foreign
" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.
Words of foreign origin, most notably those from Spanish, need to be changed in spelling to better reflect Ilocano phonology.
Words in a language other than that of the " main " text, are commonly tagged as " foreign ", usually in addition to a tag for the role the foreign word is actually playing in context.
* Words of foreign origin must be written in katakana.
Words with a dental fricative adjacent to an alveolar sibilant, such as clothes, truths, fifths, sixths, anesthetic, etc., are commonly very difficult for foreign learners to pronounce.
Words taken from foreign languages may:

Words and origin
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
* Words of French origin, such as clique and niche are pronounced more like they would be in French, so rather than, rather than.
Words of non-Indo-European origin can be traced into Greek from as early as Mycenaean times ; they include a large number of Greek toponyms.
Words such as tempura or hiryōzu ( synonymous with ganmodoki ) are said to be of Portuguese origin.
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
* homographs: Words that are identical in spelling but different in origin and meaning
* homonyms: Words that are identical with each other in pronunciation and spelling, but differing in origin and meaning
* homophones: Words that are identical with each other in pronunciation but differing in origin and meaning
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
The first written reference to them appears to be in an 1858 edition of the magazine Household Words in one of a series of articles titled " On the Canal ", but while this shows that the art form must have existed by this date it doesn't provide us with an origin.
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
Although Willie Bryant and Leonard Reed are often credited with the origin while at the Lafayette Theater, flash-dancer Joe Jones of The Three Little Words has stated that he helped invent the routine.
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
Words like jaguar, tapioca, jacaranda, anhinga, carioca, and capoeira are of Tupí – Guaraní origin.
Words of English origin may or may not conform to this orthography.
Category: Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin
" Words of East African origin include Mauritian " makutu ," Makua " makhwatta " ( running sore ); Mauritian " matak ," Swahili and Makonde " matako " ( buttock ).

Words and have
Words or phrases that connoisseurs have admired as handsome or ironic or humorous must therefore lose merit and become regarded as mere inevitable time-servers, sometimes accurate and sometimes not.
When asked because of what, Hayakawa is said to have replied: " Words.
Words that have been used in English are Ullish and Ulsterman / Ulsterwoman.
Words such as will, have, and is regularly contract to ’ ll, ’ ve, and ’ s.
Words that have the same or similar Metaphone become possible alternative spellings.
Words like drama, pyjamas, pasta tend to have rather than ~.
Words like sorrow, Florida, orange have rather than ; therefore, sorry rhymes with story rather than with starry.
Although Charles Dickens had ridiculed positive depictions of Native Americans as portrayals of so-called " noble " savages, he made an exception ( at least initially ) in the case of the Inuit, whom he called “ loving children of the north ”, “ forever happy with their lot ,” “ whether they are hungry or full ”, and “ gentle loving savages ”, who, despite a tendency to steal, have a “ quiet, amiable character ” (" Our Phantom Ship on an Antediluvian Cruise ", Household Words, April 16, 1851 ).
Words were examined and argued to have multiple meanings.
:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!
Words with capital letters do not always have the same meaning when written with lowercase letters.
Words like " strategy " and " operations " have acquired meanings that might not have been recognizable a generation ago.
Words that may have had a route into English via French ( where all h &# 39 ; s are unpronounced ) may have an to avoid an unusual pronunciation.
* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).
Words like " queer " and " rainbow " have been tried but most have not been widely adopted.
Words that have a formal meaning can also have a colloquial meaning.
: Words don't have meanings in isolation.
Frye readily acknowledged the debt he owed to Vico in developing his literary theory, describing him as " the first modern thinker to understand that all major verbal structures have descended historically from poetic and mythological ones " ( Words with Power xii ).
* Words and actions suggesting that the bread and wine truly become the body and blood of Jesus Christ have been removed or replaced.

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