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killed two men playing cards: "Suddenly a dispute arose and angry words passed between them." The manager of the saloon, Harry Donnelly, used a revolver to...

swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity...

abbreviations of mathematics. Some British English words come from French roots, while American English finds its words from other places, e.g. AmE eggplant and...

of the sun... we will remember them." The bells were to be rung 100 times in recognition of the 100 years having passed. A plaque on a statue dedicated...

beginning to paint. past and passed. Past refers to events that have previously occurred, while passed is the past tense of "to pass", whether in a congressional...

last words. After I am gone, be kind to the missionaries; be kind also to the other Europeans; welcome them to the shore, trade with them, protect them, and...

languages, such as philosophy of language, the relationships between language and thought, how words represent experience, etc., have been debated at least...

language, ludling, or argot) is a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to an untrained listener. Language games are used...

e.g. in 1850, the British Parliament passed an act which provided that, when used in acts of Parliament "words importing the masculine gender shall be...

the other hand, are formed by the gradual drifting together of words over time due to them commonly appearing together in sequence, such as do not naturally...

in the Occitan-speaking Germanasca Valley, into a Waldensian family. She passed her law examinations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Turin and...

loanwords, that is, words in English that derive from Persian, either directly, or more often, from one or more intermediary languages. Many words of Persian origin...

January 16, 2021 – via Twitter. "Widow of Larry King shares his last words; says he passed away from infection 'unrelated' to COVID-19". Fox 8 Cleveland WJW...

vocabulary is derived from standard Italian and Sicilian; and English words make up between 6% and 20% of the vocabulary. A 2016 study shows that, in terms...

that up to 30% of their vocabulary is of non-Spanish origin. Some words also passed from Judaeo-Spanish into neighbouring languages. For example, the...

notes that some operators may have passed 100 WPM. By this time, they are "hearing" phrases and sentences rather than words. The fastest speed ever sent by...

comprehension. Before the reintroduction of separated text (spaces between words) in the late Middle Ages, the ability to read silently was considered...

attack when he spoke his last words to his wife, Franca Faldini, who has been called the true love of his life before he passed away. "No reason to weep."...

A person's last words, their final articulated words stated prior to death or as death approaches, are often recorded because of the decedent's fame, but...

the number of words they bid between 6 and 22. The contestant can pass on a word if it is too difficult, returning to any passed words if time remains...