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  • Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
    ...ews/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t29 '''''Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language'''''] ...ting, [[etymology]], [[pidgin]], [[poetry]], [[sexism]], [[Shakespeare]]'s language, and [[slang]]. Features include pieces on place-names, borrowings from oth
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  • ABELL
    ...ish language, [[tradition]]al [[culture]] and English Literature. Covers [[English]], American and Commonwealth writers. Its sources are [[Books]], [[periodic
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  • Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised)
    ...sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t140 '''''The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised)'''''] ...[[language]]. It is at the forefront of language [[research]], focusing on English as it is used today, and has a unique defining style, with the modern [[mea
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  • Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
    ...og.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t30 '''''Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage'''''] ...nglish, the new edition answers your most frequently asked questions about language use.
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  • Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
    ...eatures expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evid
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  • Oxford English Dictionary at duPont
    '''''[https://0-www.oed.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/ Oxford English Dictionary]''''' ...onary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last
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  • Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary (English-Irish)
    ...reference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t145a (Irish-English)] ...ry is intended for learners of Irish and for all those interested in the [[language]].
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  • Pocket Oxford Irish Dictionary (Irish-English)
    ...oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t145b (English-Irish)] ...ry is intended for learners of Irish and for all those interested in the [[language]].
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  • Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary (Italian-English)
    ....oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t66b (English-Italian)] ...mar]]. Including complete coverage of contemporary idiomatic Italian and [[English]], both written and spoken, The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary covers the
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  • Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (English-Latin)
    ...reference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t131a (Latin-English)] ...st years of studying Latin, as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world.
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  • Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Latin-English)
    ...oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t131b (English-Latin)] ...ears of studying [[Latin]], as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world.
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  • Concise Oxford English Dictionary
    ...atalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t23 '''''The Concise Oxford English Dictionary'''''] ...yday words including scientific and technical [[vocabulary]], as well as [[English]] from around the world. This revised edition of the dictionary has been up
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  • Dialect
    ...other regional varieties and constituting [[together]] with them a single language <the Doric dialect of ancient [[Greek]]> :c : a variety of a [[language]] used by the members of a [[group]] <such dialects as [[politics]] and adv
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  • Corpora
    A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpu ...(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 usedto make the anno
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  • Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
    ....sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t28 '''''The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar'''''] ...[[phonetics]] and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar.
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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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  • Heritage
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from ''heriter'' to inherit, from Late Latin ''heredit ...nd [[artifacts]]), intangible culture (such as folklore, [[traditions]], [[language]], and [[knowledge]]), and natural heritage (including culturally-significa
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  • Martyr
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English], from Late Latin, from [[Greek]] martyr-, martys [[witness]] ...ing]] and/or [[death]]. The term, in this later sense, entered the English language as a loanword. The death of a martyr or the value attributed to it is calle
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  • Terminology
    Medieval Latin terminus term, [[expression]] (from [[Latin]], limit) + [[English]] -o- + -logy ...ge]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Language '''''this link'''''].</center>
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  • Native
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] natif, from Middle French, from [[Latin]] nativus, from natus, past partic ...fly Australian : having a usually superficial resemblance to a specified [[English]] plant or [[animal]]
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  • Clerk
    ...ve]] tasks. In American English, this includes shop staff, but in British English, such people are known as shop assistants and are not considered to be cler
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  • Cowardice
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] cowardise, from Anglo-French coardise, from cuard ...ords of French [[origin]], this [[word]] was introduced in the [[English]] language by the French-speaking Normans, after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No
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  • Doom
    ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] dōn to do ...wn [[native]] [[language]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English Old English], to [[express]] the '''''dooms''''', or [[laws]] and [[judgement]]s, which
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  • Chinese
    ...ry, who are often simply referred to as "Chinese" or "ethnic Chinese" in [[English]]. ==Chinese-language terms==
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  • Idiom
    ...''idiome'', from Late Latin ''idioma'' [[individual]] [[peculiarity]] of [[language]], from [[Greek]] ''idiōmat''-, ''idiōma'', from ''idiousthai'' to approp *1a : the [[language]] peculiar to a people or to a district, [[community]], or class : [[dialec
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  • Alphabet
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] alphabete, from Late [[Latin]] alphabetum, from [[Greek]] alphabētos, fr ...ents]] a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme phoneme] in a [[spoken]] [[language]], either as it exists now or as it was in the [[past]]. There are other [[
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  • Parse
    ...mbols]], either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language natural language] or in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_languages computer languages ...efers to the way that human beings analyze a sentence or phrase (in spoken language or [[text]]) "in terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the [https:
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  • Phonaesthetics
    ...iety as the reputedly most euphonic sound combination of the [[English]] [[language]] (specifically, when spoken with a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_ * Ross Smith, Inside Language - Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien, Walking Tree Publishers (2007
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  • Condemn
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French condempner, from [[Latin]] condemnare, from com- + damn .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language Proto-Indo-European] [[language]] [[origin]] is usually said to be a root dap-, which appears in [[Latin]]
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  • Prose
    .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] prosa, from [[feminine]] of prorsus, p *1 a : the ordinary [[language]] people use in [[speaking]] or [[writing]]
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  • LexisNexis Academic
    ...ews, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, and non-English language sources, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, l
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