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• Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
  ...elected by leading Slavic scholars in the USA who carefully guided English language translations. CDPSP Digital Archive paints a broad picture of life in Sovie
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• Canadian Oxford Dictionary
  ...he result of thorough research into the language and Oxford's unparalleled language resources.
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• Latin
  ...some extent variable, compared with mostly [[analytic]] languages such as English, which has lost the ancient noun-case system inherited from [[Proto-Indo-Eu ...y words adapted from Latin are found in other modern languages—including [[English]], half of whose vocabulary is derived, directly or indirectly, from Latin.
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• Riddle
  ...N_PERIOD Old English] rǣdelse [[opinion]], conjecture, riddle; akin to Old English rǣdan to [[interpret]] — more at [[read]] ...are problems generally [[expressed]] in [[metaphorical]] or allegorical [[language]] that require ingenuity and careful [[thinking]] for their solution, and c
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• Gullibility
  ...th century. The first attestation of ''gullibility'' known to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] appears in 1793, and ''gullible'' in 1825. The OED gives gulli ...pear in the 1900 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_English_Dictionary New English Dictionary].
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• Jargon
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French jargun, gargon *1a : [[confused]] unintelligible [[language]]
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• David Crystal
  ...ew up bilingual in Welsh and [[English]], which influenced his approach to language education. ...tron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).
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• Loquacious
  Fluency is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_language_pathology speech language pathology] term that means the smoothness or [[flow]] with which [[sounds]] ...rategies, and inaccurate word use. They may be illiterate, as well. Native language speakers are often incorrectly referred to as fluent.
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• King James Bible
  ...nearly three centuries. Arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies, this fully searchable online version presents the full te ...the whole Church. It is arguably the most influential single document for English literary studies. The text of the ‘He’ version contained here comprises
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• Blessing
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] blǣdsian (preserved in the Northumbrian dialect around 950 AD).[1] The te ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] during the [[process]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization
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• Motto
  ...A motto may be in any [[language]], but Latin is the most used. The local language is usual in the mottos of [[governments]]. In [[English]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_heraldry Scottish heraldry] m
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• Anthology
  The word entered the [[English]] language in the seventeenth century, from the [[Greek]] word, ἀνθολογία (a ...d textual excerpts. Shortly before anthology had entered the [[language]], English had begun using "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellany miscellany]" as
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• Corpus
  A corpus may contain texts in a single [[language]] (monolingual corpus) or text [[data]] in multiple languages (multilingual ...(base) form of each word. When the language of the corpus is not a working language of the researchers who use it, interlinear glossing is used to make the ann
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• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  '''''Encyclopedia of Philosophy''''', the ten volume [[English]]-language reference source for [[philosophy]]," has been the cornerstone of the philo
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• Oxford Dictionaries Online
  *'''''[https://english.oxforddictionaries.com/ Oxford Dictionaries Online]''''' Modern English dictionary and language reference service with detailed writing, grammar, and spelling guidance.
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• Transcripts
  ...is the conversion into written, typewritten or printed form, of a spoken [[language]] source, such as the [[proceedings]] of a [[court]] hearing. It can also m ...honetic transcription of the name of the former Russian president known in English as Boris Yeltsin, followed by accepted hybrid forms in various languages. N
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• Etymology
  ...rd. For example, [[Latin]] candidus, which means "white", is the etymon of English candid. ...tracing it and its cognates to a common [[ancestral]] form in an ancestral language.
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• ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  Digitized collection of 150,000 English and foreign language books, pamphlets, broadsides and other ephemera published in the U.K. and t The collection is an ongoing project based on The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), a machine-readable union list of the holdings
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• 0:0 The Foreword
  ...h]] revealers have been authorized to [[translate]] into the [[English]] [[language]] of [[Urantia]]. ...ce new terms only when the concept to be portrayed finds no terminology in English which can be employed to convey such a new concept partially or even with m
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• Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
  ...hese and hundreds of other questions that bedevil those who care about the language. Garner draws on a host of evidence to support his judgements, citing thous
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