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  Navigating through Treacherous Waters
Furthermore, it could be expected that when translating the name of a city designated after its patron saint, all that it is needed is to translate the name of the saint; but then again, this does always not hold true.
The name of San Sebastián, when translated into Basque becomes Donostia, a name derived from Donebastian, a contraction of Done (saint) and Sabastián in the local tongue.11 This situation cannot necessarily be recognized by the average reader of today, and the translator should be aware of it when consulting local documents, both old and recent.
In Spanish, the unquestionable spelling is Montreal, as it is clear that the stressed vowel is the "a." Even the MS spell-checker acknowledges that the correct spelling is Montreal.
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 AuthorNet - Cambridge University Press
For sources of figures and tables, give the author name and date (and permission if required) in the caption; give the full details in the reference list.
Author names should be separated by either 'and' or 'and' throughout.
use 'Native American' rather than 'Indian'; White and Black are preferable to Caucasian and Negroid; use 'Humanity', 'people', 'humans' rather than 'Man' to describe the human race; use 'him/her' or 'them' rather than 'him' (but we prefer that you rewrite to avoid excessive use of him/her).
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 Language in India
Many early printers were from Holland and they introduced their own spelling norms, and made several convenient abbreviations and additions and deletions to account for the space in a line.
The efforts of Spelling Reform Association in the U.S. (founded in 1876) and Simplified Spelling Society in Britain (founded in 1908), along with the untiring efforts of Bernard Shaw, a great modern playwright, in recent times, are significant milestones in spelling reform movements.
(Indian teachers of TESOL are very weak in this aspect.) This means that you will use English as frequently as possible for interaction with the students, and that you will ask students to use English as much as they can to express their personal needs and to engage themselves in conversations with you.
www.languageinindia.com /april2002/tesolbook.html   (20431 words)

  
 Kronos: A Chronological History of the Martial Arts and Combative Sports
If it is simply noting a spelling error, then nothing more is needed than the proper spelling.
Names of places are generally given in their most commonly used English form.
http://home.earthlink.net/~rcfriend/chubbazi.htm (chub-bazi) The name means "wood dance" in Farsi, and refers to the stick fighting done in Persian-influenced tribal communities in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Rumania.
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 English Usage Archives Page
The pizza, made in the colors of the Italian flag, was named for HRH Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna, Principessa di Savoja-Genova (born at Torino, November 20, 1851; died at Bordighera near Imperia, Liguria, January 4, 1926), subsequently (1878-1900) Queen of Italy.
The spelling competition began Wednesday with 250 competitors who qualified to compete in the national spelling bee by winning locally sponsored bees in their home communities.
Examples of some changes from 1978 to 2002: "sons of God" to "children of God" in Matthew 5:9, and "a man is justified by faith" to "a person is justified by faith" in Romans 3:28.
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 Stark County Law Library Blawg
A party may in the notice and in a subpoena, if required, name as the deponent a public or private corporation or a partnership or association or governmental agency and describe with reasonable particularity the matters on which examination is requested.
That means that all of the computers and other mechanisms that are automatically configured to change time on a set date will have to be re-configured, or they might get confused.
The changes are usually incremental, so a memo, e-mail notice, or laminated “tips and tricks” sheet, along with optional training, suffice to make the transition.
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 T. R. Dawson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The widest and most general definition of chess pieces as forces and of chess play as changes in equilibrium in these forces is an old and well-established one.
Shortly after Timur's period the name was changed in Central Asia, Northern India and Persia to Fish or Crocodile.
In European warfare it was named a “sow”.
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Either it was a case of _adopting_ their ways of thought and behaviour, or it was that those things were already in me and were enhanced by the pride of those who surrounded me at that time.
Her maiden name was Margaret (Margret, sometimes called Greta) Koch and it is believed she came from somewhere near Konstantinovka, Galicia.
Grandma was born in Gertjanos,Hungary(now Carpinis of Torontal, Romanina) her name was Katherine Waltner/Walder, born in 1876 and Grandpa was born in Sankt Andrees,Hungary,(now Sanandrei, also in Romania), his name was Christian Hummel/Humel/Huml born in Sankt Andrees,(now called Sanandrei, also in Romania)in 1875.
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Prior to this co-presentation with Ted Gunderson, Brice was rather nervous about returning to Los Angeles, the area where so much of her abuse had taken place (her home was located in a town just outside of LA), but she decided to name names and she did.
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