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• Symbol
  ==Language and symbols==
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• Blasphemy
  ..."reputation". From blasphemare also came Old French blasmer, from which [[English]] "blame" came. Sometimes the word "blasphemy" is used loosely to mean any profane [[language]], for example: "With much hammering and blasphemy, the locomotive's replac
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• Data
  '''Data''' in everyday language is a [[synonym]] for [[information]] [https://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Di ==Usage in English==
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• 2008-05-26-Spanish 11:11
  ...et still connected with the group that instigated this work in a ‘foreign’ language. “We do expect that in reality very little will change. The English human contingent counts some 25 odd people. The Spanish group will also gr
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• Message
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Medieval [[Latin]] missaticum, from Latin missus * Any [[thought]] or [[idea]] [[expressed]] in a [[language]], prepared in a [[form]] suitable for transmission by any means of communi
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• Barbarism
  ...rian" either described a foreign [[individual]] or [[tribe]] whose first [[language]] was not [[Greek]] or a Greek individual or tribe speaking Greek crudely.
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• Candy
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''sugre candy'', part [[translation]] of Middle French ''sucre candi'', fr
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• Shamans
  ...nd indeed is "the only commonly used English word that is a loan from this language". ISBN 1557865604 ...uage usage, shaman has become interchangeable with the older [[English]] [[language]] pejorative term ''[[witch doctor]]''. This is anthropologically inaccurat
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• Wiktionary
  ...information typically found in thesauruses and lexicons. Additionally, the English Wiktionary now includes ''Wikisaurus'', a category that serves as a thesaur
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• Index to Jewish Periodicals
  Provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devot
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• Medium
  ==English== *:[[Rhymes:English:-iːdiəm|Rhymes: -iːdiəm]]
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• Language
  ...language. In some cases, this involves disentangling folk uses of the term language from scientific uses. ...uage''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Language '''''this link'''''].</center>
  13 KB (2,044 words) - 22:21, 12 December 2020
• Learning curve
  ...ford English Dictionary]], The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary define a learning curve as t
  3 KB (419 words) - 01:24, 13 December 2020
• Rhyme
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''rime'', from Anglo-French ...#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] (Old English rīm [[meaning]] "enumeration, series, numeral") and Old High German rīm,
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• Ethnic
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ethnicus, from [[Greek]] ethnikos national, gentile, from ...rom the 14th century through the middle of the 19th century were used in [[English]] in the meaning of "[[pagan]], heathen", as ethnikos was used as the LXX t
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• Oxford Dictionary of Law
  ...in the UK or any Commonwealth country where the legal system is founded on English law.
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• Shalom
  ...n many other expressions and names. Its equivalent [[cognate]] in [[Arabic language|Arabic]] is ''[[salaam]]'' and ''sälam'' in [[Ethiopian Semitic languages] ...n]]-[[lamedh|lamed]]-[[mem]] (ש.ל.ם), which has cognates in many [[Semitic language]]s, came to be connected with concepts of ''completeness'', ''fulfilment'',
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• Proverb
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] proverbe, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] proverbium, from pro- + verbum ...[[cultures]], and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. Both the [[Bible]] ([[Book of Proverbs|Book of Proverbs]]) and medieval La
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• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
  ...lary]] for everyday [[Archaeology|archaeological]] work in the [[English]] language, this up-to-date dictionary is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of i
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• Sanskrit
  ...skrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil which have already been given the classical-language status.'' and one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and [[Buddha|Budd ...age]], and one of the earliest attested members of the [[Indo-European]] [[language]] family.
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