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  • Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first 100 words make up about half of all...
    16 KB (858 words) - 17:56, 20 March 2024
  • The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of a word and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...
    36 KB (3,164 words) - 01:47, 29 May 2024
  • saying that words with k sounds are funny: Fifty-seven years in this business, you learn a few things. You know what words are funny and which words are not...
    14 KB (1,631 words) - 21:26, 8 May 2024
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    the last words of J. C. Blumhardt). Also reported as, "I had him by the throat Carl, but he shot me." Gilmore is also oft-quoted as saying a few minutes...
    324 KB (35,614 words) - 15:49, 29 May 2024
  • Function word (redirect from Function words)
    structures of sentences. Words that are not function words are called content words (or open class words, lexical words, or autosemantic words) and include...
    6 KB (698 words) - 23:26, 2 May 2024
  • "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" is a short essay by the philosopher, politician, and economist, John Stuart Mill. It was written in 1859 in the context...
    8 KB (1,097 words) - 21:15, 21 May 2024
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    Germanic language. Then, Middle English borrowed words extensively from French dialects, which make up about 28% of Modern English vocabulary, and from Latin...
    229 KB (23,183 words) - 02:30, 1 June 2024
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    Onomatopoeia (redirect from Sound words)
    ('words of saying') are a method of integrating onomatopoeic words and ideophones into grammar. Sometimes, things are named from the sounds they make....
    28 KB (3,351 words) - 19:19, 20 May 2024
  • as Spanish or French. It does not cover names of ethnic groups or place names derived from Indigenous languages. Most words of Native American/First Nations...
    78 KB (5,340 words) - 18:53, 30 May 2024
  • A Few Good Men is a 1992 American legal drama film based on Aaron Sorkin's 1989 play. It was written by Sorkin, directed by Rob Reiner, and produced by...
    44 KB (4,104 words) - 13:21, 25 May 2024
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    blanket! Make haste and return it to him at once." — Ralph Abercromby, Scottish soldier and politician (28 March 1801). Wounded at the Battle of Alexandria...
    183 KB (20,870 words) - 01:51, 5 May 2024
  • rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration. Agglutinative languages allow for the creation of long words via compounding...
    76 KB (7,126 words) - 11:59, 30 May 2024
  • NATO phonetic alphabet (category History of air traffic control)
    widely used set of clear-code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet. Technically a radiotelephonic spelling alphabet, it goes by various...
    72 KB (4,888 words) - 23:37, 24 May 2024
  • Longest word in Turkish (category Turkish words and phrases)
    such words would become unintelligible after a few cycles of recursion. Turkish grammar is highly agglutinative, enabling the construction of words by stringing...
    11 KB (975 words) - 14:17, 12 April 2024
  • misspelled English words (UK: misspelt words) are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing. A selected list of common words is presented...
    27 KB (1,602 words) - 05:21, 13 May 2024
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    Burns' very last words is disputed. Whether these were Palmer's last words is questionable. Also reported as, "I trust in the mercy of God, it is not now too...
    74 KB (8,765 words) - 00:47, 20 May 2024
  • analyze these words instead as having a rhotic vowel, /ɝː/. The difference may be partially one of dialect. There are a few such words that are disyllabic...
    57 KB (7,108 words) - 23:48, 23 May 2024
  • there's anything that would make one of those words feel more hurtful or insensitive than normal." Bennett also avoids words which are difficult to find...
    56 KB (5,333 words) - 12:29, 31 May 2024
  • contain words (Russianisms) most likely borrowed from the Russian language. Not all of the words are of purely Russian or origin. Some of them co-exist...
    63 KB (7,752 words) - 10:58, 25 April 2024
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    charts are used. Only a few words are printed on each slide—often only one or two short words, using very large characters. To make up for this, a presenter...
    3 KB (312 words) - 20:11, 21 February 2024
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