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• Project
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] projecte, from Medieval [[Latin]] projectum, from Latin, neuter of project When the [[English]] [[language]] initially adopted the [[word]], it referred to a plan of something, not t
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• Sermon
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French sermun, from Medieval Latin sermon-, sermo, from [[Lati .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] [[word]] which was derived from an Old French term, which in turn came fro
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• Whisper
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] hwisperian; akin to Old High German hwispalōn to whisper, Old Norse hvīs ...he IPA for whispered phonation, since it is not used phonemically in any [[language]]. However, a sub-dot under phonemically voiced segments is sometimes seen
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• Deafness
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''dēaf''; akin to [[Greek]] ''typhlos'' [[blind]], ''typhein'' to smoke, ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''dēaf'', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ''doof'' and German ''taub
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• Symbols
  ...in the story are in this category: the monarch, the robe, the scepter, the language, the subjects. ...[[Middle English]], from [[Old French]], from [[Latin]], from the [[Greek language|Greek]] σύμβολον (''sýmbolon'') from the root words συν- (''syn
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• Forest
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Late Latin forestis (silva) unenclosed (woodland) ...e generally. By the start of the fourteenth century the word appeared in [[English]] [[texts]], indicating all three [[senses]]: the most common one, the lega
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• Sarcasm
  ...flesh; probably akin to Avestan thwarəs- to cut. It is first recorded in [[English]] in 1579, in an annotation to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shepheard ...al wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often [[ironic]] [[language]] that is usually directed against an [[individual]]
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• 2019-02-12-The Tipping Point and Patience
  ...glish, Spanish or Mandarin but where it concerns coming to an [[eventual]] language for all or for most — here we go again, ‘tipping point’ — both the
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• Mores
  ...tantum term borrowed from Latin, which has been used in the [[English]] [[language]] since the 1890s. The [[English]] [[word]] [[morality]] comes from the same [[root]], as does the noun mora
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• Numerology
  [[Latin]] ''numerus'' + English -''o- + -logy'' ...story of numerological [[ideas]], the word "numerology" is not recorded in English before c.1907.
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• Vulgar
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] vulgaris of the mob, vulgar, from volgus, vulgus mob, comm *5 a : offensive in [[language]] : [[earth]]y
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• Quiescent
  Quiescence (kwē-ĕs-ənts) is a [[Latin]]-derived [[English]] language noun referring to a [[state]] of [[being]] quiet, still, at rest, dormant,
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• Pride
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] prȳde, from prūd proud ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''prut'', probably from Old French ''prud'' "[[brave]], valiant" (11th cen
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• Slang
  ...''slengenamn'', which means "nickname"), but is discounted by the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] based on "date and early associations". *1 : [[language]] peculiar to a particular [[group]]: as a : argot
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• Supposition
  ...[[signifies]] a cup as an object, but cup as a term of the [[language]] [[English]] is being used to supposit for the wine contained in the cup. ...e cup the term cup is standing in for the object that is called a cup in [[English]], so it is in personal supposition. A term is in improper supposition, if
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• Art Index Retrospective
  ...years of art journalism at a keystroke. Users can research leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dut
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• Rumor
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] rēon to lament, [[Sanskrit]] rauti he roars # Pendleton, S.c. (1998), 'Rumor research revisited and expanded', Language& Communication, vol. 1. no. 18, pp. 69--86.
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• Inflection
  ...nse (future). The use of this suffix is an inflection. In contrast, in the English clause "I will lead", the word "lead" is not inflected for any of person, n ...] (a unit of meaning which cannot stand alone as a word). For example, the English word "cars" is a noun that is inflected for number, specifically to express
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• City
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] citie large or small town, from Anglo-French cité, from Medieval [[Latin] ...] on how a city is distinguished from a town within general [[English]] [[language]] [[meanings]], many cities have a particular [[administrative]], [[legal]]
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• Plough
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] plōh hide of [[land]]; akin to Old High German pfluog plow ...icultural implement at 3a, sulh, [[survived]] in western and south-western English [[dialects]] (those spoken in the areas least [[influenced]] by Norse settl
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