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	English System
		From Webster's 1913: "Grain, the unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because it was equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat.
		A fraction of an ounce (a twelfth or a sixteenth depending on the system).
		The foot-pound-second system is an attempt to make a useful scientific unit system out of the mess that is the traditional English system of units.
	hypertextbook.com /physics/foundations/system-english (3105 words)

	ENGLISH FINANCE - LoveToKnow Article on ENGLISH FINANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The English merchants, however, for the tii~ie, successfully resisted the application in their case of the higher charges, and consequently remained under the old prisage of wine.
		A particular aspect of the English financial system is its relation to the organization of the finance of territories connected with the English crown.
		By the consolidation of the English and Irish exchequers and the passage from war to peace, the years between 181S and 1820 may be said to mark a distinct step in the financial development of the country.
	29.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EN/ENGLISH_FINANCE.htm (12649 words)

	Imperial unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term imperial should not be applied to English units that were outlawed in Weights and Measures Act of 1824 or earlier, or which had fallen out of use by that time, nor to post-imperial inventions such as the slug or poundal.
		Britain has made some use of three different weight systems, troy weight, used for precious metals, avoirdupois weight, used for most other purposes, and apothecaries' weight, now virtually unused since the metric system is used for all scientific purposes.
		In all the systems, the fundamental unit is the pound, and all other units are defined as fractions or multiples of it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_unit (1076 words)

	English units of measurement. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The names of the units and the relationships between them are generally the same in both systems, but the sizes of the units differ, sometimes considerably.
		In the avoirdupois system, the most widely used of the three, the pound is divided into 16 ounces (oz) and the ounce into 16 drams.
		The grain is also a unit in the avoirdupois system, 1 avoirdupois pound being 7,000 grains, so that the troy pound is 5,760/7,000 of an avoirdupois pound.
	www.bartleby.com /65/en/Englsh-u.html (781 words)

	Units: Customary Units
		In traditional English law the various pound weights are related by stating all of them as multiples of the grain, which was originally the weight of a single barleycorn.
		Thus the gallon, the basic English unit of volume, was originally the volume of eight pounds of wheat.
		On both sides of the Atlantic, smaller volumes of liquid are traditionally measured in fluid ounces, which are at least roughly equal to the volume of one ounce of water.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/custom.html (2279 words)

	English Legal System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		English common law or the body of customary law based on judicial decisions and embodied in report of decided cases,originated in the early Middle Ages in decision of local courts which applied custom and reason to every day disputes with the aid of but few formal enactments.
		English common law continued to be developed by judges as opposed to legislators and their case law continues today to decide the meaning of legislative enactments and fill in gaps in the law by « declaring » (in effect extending and developing) the common law.
		English law prefers precedent as a basis for judgements and moves empirically from case to case from one reality to another.
	www.u-psud.fr /SCEAUX/enseignement/R.nsf/els.htm?OpenPage (11686 words)

	English grammar - freeTutorials Learning pages - 5-column-system -language school
		Her goal was to make English grammar as user-friendly and as easily applicable as possible without having to explain it through the use of expansive grammatical terminology.
		With the help of the 5-column system, beginners and advanced speakers learn correct sentence structure and verb tenses in a very short time span.
		For a professional presentation of the 5-column system for English grammar, we offer you our half-day course "Introduction to the 5-column system",with Barbara Förster, the developer of the system.
	www.sensetainment.de /english/lernhilfe/lernhilfe.html (390 words)

	Imperial unit -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Imperial system is also called the English system, the British system or, perhaps more correctly, the (A system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)) Avoirdupois System.
		It is the primary alternative to the (A decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter and the kilogram and the second) metric system.
		In all the systems, the fundamental unit is the (16 ounces) pound, and all other units are defined as fractions or multiples of it.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/im/imperial_unit.htm (1925 words)

	Sankrant Sanu's Blog - Sankrant Sanu web blogs, Sankrant Sanu blogger in India
		English medium education is “natural” for studying both the sciences and social sciences.
		English medium schools, along with the cessation of teaching English as a language in native-language schools.
		While learning English as a language subject can today be an empowering tool and needs to be encouraged, when it is turned into the primary medium of elite education its destructive effects in the creation of a disconnected elite class far outweigh any putative benefits.
	www.sulekha.com /blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=4600 (4383 words)

	Cut Smart : Metric vs. English System of Measurement
		With the meter now determined as the basis of the metric system, other linear units of the system were set up in decimal ratios with the meter.
		With this system, all units are in multiples of ten: ten decimeters in a meter, a hundred centimeters in a meter, and a thousand millimeters in a meter.
		The English system of measuring was almost universally adopted in the United States.
	www.cutsmart.com /articles/METRIC_VS_ENGLISH_SYSTEM_OF_MEASUREMENT.html (1399 words)

	The English Arbitration System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		According to general characteristics of the English system of arbitration, it must be highlighted the subsidiary character in relation to the foreseen by the will of the parties, the rules of Arbitration Act 1996 and, consequently, the possibility of appealing, in the procedure, to regulation of a Permanent Institute of Arbitration.
		It is highlighted that both in the system that derives from the Common Law and the legislative of Estatute Law, the validity of compromise clause is admitted, in general, and there is no difference to the commitment.
		It shall also be emphasised that the English law establishes the direct efficacy of the compromise clause, making possible the decision of just on of arbitrators in case of naming and refuse by one of the parties.
	www.infojus.com.br /area4/fernandocunha3.html (1427 words)

	Old English Fonts, Old English Software - Mac, Old English Software - Windows, Old English System,
		In tracing the historical development of the English language, it is customary to divide it into three periods: Old English, which dates from earliest times to 1150; Middle English, 1150-1500; and Modern English, 1500 to the present.
		The history of the English language may be said to have begun with the arrival in Britain of three Germanic tribes about the middle of the 5th century.
		in the case of English it was the arrival in Britain of a small Germanic tribe from an "angle" of land on the Continent.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/OldEnglish.htm (1524 words)

	CNN.com - Language software code 'deciphers' English - August 16, 2001
		For every rule of English there are a myriad of exceptions and irregularities, which compound illiteracy problems for native English speakers and frustrate the efforts of non-English speakers.
		These represent the 22 English vowel sounds, the 26 phonetic consonant sounds, consonant letters which change their sounds or are not phonetically sounded, and letters which are silent.
		Where the DD-code system was strong was that it enabled the entire English language to be broken wholly down into phonetic parts, he said.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/16/aust.english (924 words)

	English System
		Grain, the unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because it was equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat.
		Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.
		The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62° F, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights.
	www.hypertextbook.com /physics/foundations/system-english (1358 words)

	Think Metric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Because the metric system is so much simpler and easier to use than the current U.S. system of measurement and we strongly believe fully converting to the metric system in the U.S. is necessary.
		I refer to our current system of measurement as US and not English, because there are differences between the system of measurement currently used in the United States, and the English system of measurement used in England.
		By these steps the metric system became the primary system of weights and measures in the United States, Nevertheless, with the exception of science and a few other specialized fields, we have entered the 21st century and the English/US system is still predominantly used in the United States.
	www.think-metric.com (445 words)

	English Legal System
		The English Legal System is based on the age old system of precedent which can be strict and inflexible.
		Precedent brings consistency to the English legal system, in that two cases with similar material facts will be treated in the same manner.
		However some may feel that treating two cases alike doesn't allow for much freedom and rigidity is formed, inhibiting the development of the law and therefore giving the impression that the law of precedent is strict and inflexible.
	www.courseworkbank.co.uk /coursework/english_legal_system_2205 (1626 words)

	English Public Schools (from school system) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The barbarians, however, did not destroy the empire; in fact, their entry was really in the form of vast migrations that swamped the existing and rapidly weakening Roman...
		The structure of the school system normally reflects the structure of government itself.
		This is a comparison of the English and metric systems of measurement.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-207733 (831 words)

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		English does not always use affixes to express these categories (see the discussion of irregular morphology).
		It may be adapted to the borrowing language's phonological system to varying degrees.
		Many morphemes of English have more than one way of being pronounced; this is often not reflected in the spelling of the morpheme.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~jrubba/morph/morph.over.html (2159 words)

	CONCERTINA.net - English System Concertina - Buyer's Guide
		Before buying, you should explore the multiple uses of the English system concertina (if you haven't already): Classical/Regondi et al., Folk revival/Alf Edwards et al., Amazing virtuosos of today/A. Anderson, S. Thoumire, etc. A number of Concertina.net members and other contemporary players are among the accomplished players of these various styles.
		A note on my experience and thus perspective...I come to the English system from the Anglo concertina world, where there is a pretty clear three-fold divide into Chinese and Italian entry-level models, cheaper vintage and new accordion-reed instruments, and top-grade vintage and new concertinas of traditional construction.
		I have to confess I was also conscious that one's money goes farther with vintage examples of the English system -- demand is not yet as far ahead of supply as it is in the anglo world.
	www.concertina.net /guide_english.html (2657 words)

	English Coroner System Part 1: Origins
		The office of Coroner is a uniquely English institution, though perhaps 'Norman' might be more accurate in the sense in which we know it today.
		They remained independent of England for a long time and their system of law is more akin to that found on the Continent.
		Much of the present-day English legal structure was born in the last decade of the 12th century.
	www.britannia.com /history/articles/coroner1.html (2012 words)

	Units
		There are several systems of units, each containing units for properties such as length, volume, weight, and time.
		Base units in the Metric System can be converted into units that are more appropriate for the quantity being measured by adding a prefix to the name of the base unit.
		The units of every measurement in the SI system must be derived from one or more of the seven base units.
	chemed.chem.purdue.edu /genchem/topicreview/bp/ch1/units.html (597 words)

	Metric System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Metric system was developed in France during the Napoleonic reign of France in the 1790's.
		The metric system has several advantages over the English system which is still in place in the U.S. However the scientific community has adopted the metric system almost from its inception.
		The kilogram is the standard unit of mass in the metric or SI system.
	members.aol.com /profchm/metric.html (1643 words)

	LLRX -- Update to A Guide to the UK Legal System
		It uses its own system of citation for cases and there are links other cases and legislation where they are loaded on the database.
		The Scottish legal system is in part separate from that of England and Wales.
		The court system is separate and different from that of England and Wales, and uses different terminology.
	www.llrx.com /features/uk2.htm (4564 words)

	English System - Concertina.net Discussion Forums
		I tend to feel that those systems that have survived have done so because they suit a large number of people, and they are a fundimental part of what the concertina is.
		Only four systems were produced in quantity by more than one English maker: Regondi seems to have given Wheatstone's "English" concertina the publicity needed to create demand.
		The easily discernible interval relationships in the English layout are diatonic fifths (along the rows) and thirds (on diagonals), and half steps (between inner and outer rows).
	www.concertina.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=1574 (5488 words)

	media.ca - Number System Old English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Old English nouns had grammatical gender (masculine, feminine, neuter), singular and plural number, and were...
		This is the English Consonantal System using symbols from the International Phonetic...
		Old English is the name given to the germanic language spoken in the southern part of the island of Britain before the Norman Conquest in 1066 c.e.
	www.media.ca /Number-System-Old-English/reference/search (399 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The English Writing System (The English Language Series): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca.
		If we are not native speakers of one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English regularly for academic or business purposes.
		"The English Language" series, which is international in focus, aims to synthesize the wealth of existing linguistic research both on and in English.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340808640 (468 words)

	The Petersonian English Spelling System
		There is a glide commonly associated with the sound [ɑ], but English doesn't have it (unless you consider the sound Homer Simpson makes when he's entranced by food to be a part of English), and also doesn't have a letter for it.
		It'd mean learning a dialect of English which, all of the sudden, isn't as internationally recognizable, and, thus, isn't as useful.
		By creating a spelling system that reflects the pronunciation of native English speakers only, we would actually be doing harm to those who would seek to learn it, and those who use it already as a means of international communication.
	dedalvs.free.fr /petersonian.html (6468 words)

	English Legal System
		The English legal profession is also split into two branches whose training (after university level), practice and regulation are all separate - solicitors and barristers.
		However, no English lawyer is happy to rely on the bare text of a statute unless it has been interpreted by a court.
		The legal system came into being as a civilised alternative to more primitive means of dispute resolution.
	www.niknicol.co.uk /English/english_legal_system.html (1355 words)

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