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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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• 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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