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	List of English words with disputed usage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious among writers on usage and other prescriptivists.
		M-W notes that use of the word in sense of "fortunate" has been in standard use for at least 70 years and notes that the sense of "coming or happening by a lucky chance" is virtually unnoticed by usage critics.
		Hopefully - some prescriptivists argue this word should not be used as an expression of confidence in an outcome; however, M-W classes hopefully with other words such as interestingly, frankly, and unfortunately (which are unremarkably used in a similar way) as disjuncts, and describes this usage as "entirely standard"[17].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_with_disputed_usage (3383 words)

	Quirks.com: Research Resources [Glossary]
		List of beginning and ending house numbers, ZIP codes and other geographic codes for all city delivery service and streets served by 31,540 post offices located in 6,601 ZIP codes.
		A measure that is computed by dividing the total population of a geographic unit by its land area measured in square miles or square kilometers.
		Measures the extent volume shifts in response to a shift in the variable under consideration.
	www.quirks.com /resources/glossary.asp (12240 words)

	Spelling Words
		The words in this word bank are listed in the order of their frequency of use in everyday writing.
		The first 25 words are used in 33% of everyday writing, the first 100 words appear in 50% of adult and student writing, and the first 1,000 words are used in 89% of everyday writing.
		"No Excuses" Words are the words for which students are accountable to spell correctly in all of their everyday writing and are taken from the list of core words.
	hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us /curriculum/spelling/spelling-words.html (247 words)

	Preparing for Objective Tests from English-Zone.Com
		Every field of study has its own vocabulary, so identify words and terms used to represent specific concepts (i.e., the word "paradigm" in a social science course), and treat them as you would a foreign language.
		If you know facts that are beyond the level of sophistication of the test, 1) record the intended answer, and 2) point out the possible ambiguity and make a case for a different answer either in the margin of the test or during the next regular class.
		Words like some, usually, not, usually denote true statements, but be sure to interpret each statement as a special case.
	www.english-zone.com /study/objtests.html (1491 words)

	Chinese Measure Words
		Chinese measure words indicate the unit of measurement of some object just as their English counterparts in phrases like "three cups of water" or "a pinch of salt".
		If the object is contained inside some container, such as a cup, a bottle, or a box, the measure word is simple: it is just the name of the container.
		Learning the correct measure word is as important as learning the correct gender for nouns in languages such as Spanish or French where nouns have gender..
	www.yellowbridge.com /language/measurewords.html (246 words)

	Sniglets
		To be trapped in one's trousers by a faulty zipper.
		A sniglet is a word that should be in the dictionary but isn't.
		While Rich Hall invented the word "sniglet" itself, sniglets are actually a long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to define things or concepts that have no "official" definitions.
	bertc.com /sniglets.htm (5624 words)

	Word Play
		The list of words and phrases chosen annually by Lake Superior State University as banished from the Queen's English for mis-use, over-use or general uselessness.
		Lists from previous years are available in their archive to view or to print as a poster.
		Word morphing is changing one word into another by changing one letter at a time with each change resulting in a valid word.
	www.wolinskyweb.net /word.htm (4506 words)

	List of English words of Malay origin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		from 'kati' (a measurement unit, whereby 1 kati = approximately 600 g)
		Categories: Lists of English words of foreign origin
		This page was last modified 11:50, 1 June 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Malay_origin (135 words)

	Wordlists page
		Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance.
		To get the second one thousand most common words in English (words 1001 -2000) with their word families click here.
		The University Word List was a list of words often found in academic texts, but does not exactly take off from the end of the second thousand most frequent word list.
	www1.harenet.ne.jp /~waring/vocab/wordlists/vocfreq.html (569 words)

	5000 FREE SAT Words - Learn an Ivy League Vocabulary - SAT Prep Private Tutoring, Classes, Courses, Montgomery County, ...
		A peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States.
		A list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject.
		Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas".
	freevocabulary.com (10050 words)

	Top 1000 words in UK English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The following are the 1000 most common wordforms in UK English, based on 29 works of literature by 18 authors (4.6 million words) and Rosengren's modified frequency, with case-equated matching.
		Absolute frequency is a notoriously noisy indicator of the commonness of a word; a particular word may occur a large number of times in total but in only a few texts.
		Modified frequency has the property that it is less than or equal to the absolute frequency, with equality if and only if the word is evenly distributed (same relative frequency in all texts).
	www.bckelk.uklinux.net /words/uk1000n.html (256 words)

	ORB: Latin Word List
		This upgrade of the Latin Word List contains some eight thousand entries, although a significant number are duplicates to allow the presentation of additional possible translations and some few are idiosyncratic personal reminders.
		Please note that this is only a word list offering some possible translations and is no substitute for working closely with a good dictionary.
		I would like to thank those who have contributed entries to this facility, and I would encourage anyone who uses it and finds it useful to send lists of possible additions in the form of simple text with the same format as appears in the wordlist to lhnelson@raven.cc.ukans.edu.
	www.the-orb.net /latwords.html (7715 words)

	American English
		British usage is "meter" for a measuring device and "metre" for the unit of length.
		Apart from "County Durham" the word would not be used in referring to a British administrative division, the suffix "-shire" means that it's a county anyway.
		In BE "bum" is a slightly vulgar word for "bottom" and "fanny" is a distinctly vulgar word for the female genitalia.
	www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html (12175 words)

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		Normally, however, it is not pronounced at the beginning of a word and in other positions it represents 'aa'.
		The combination 'ah' at the end of a word is pronounced like 'aa' or 'e'.
		In the middle it could stand for w/oo/o/au chhoTi he: h Used in native words chhoTi ye: y Stand for ee/e/ai at the end of a word.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~navin/india/urdu.dictionary (591 words)

	weaselwords
		In other words he may or may not be good at anything or really know anything e.g.
		It's a word that I hate with a passion because it is akin to 'downsize'.
		Ironically this word is not new; for the last 400 years it has meant "subject or liable to an action at law"!
	www.weaselwords.com.au /words.htm (3275 words)

	Essential World English
		That one can say -- technical jargon apart -- everything one needs to say with 850 words in the English of the Authorised Version or of Winston Churchill at his best is therefore at first sight an impressive achievement.
		The List of Essential Semantic Units (LESU) is given in 26 lessons of 50 words each, followed by two lessons of supplementary words.
		EWE ought to be compared with Basic English, the Voice of America special word list, and Universal Language Dictionary elements.
	www.langmaker.com /outpost/eswldeng.htm (828 words)

	Basic English and common words
		Such figures are available for the whole corpus (17.9 million), the written part of the corpus (16.6 million words), and the spoken part of the corpus (1.3 million), expressed simply as the number of occurrences in each (sub) corpus.
		The best thing to do may be to measure the word frequencies in the actual data in which one is most interested.
		Finally, note that word lists like this are generally not very useful for spelling checkers (which is what many people want them for).
	www.bckelk.uklinux.net /words/basic.html (1914 words)

	Improve Your Vocabulary and Achieve Success
		In other words, they fail to teach you the meaning of the words, how to easily and regularly use them in proper context, how to properly pronounce them, and thus how to assimilate the words into your active, long-term vocabulary.
		Using such words will more than likely confuse people (perhaps confuse or even denigrate them) rather than convince them, which is what you're trying to do in the first place.
		Bottom line, the Executive Vocabulary Power Words program is the most focused, aggressive, and effective tool you can buy to improve your communications skills and incorporate powerful words to the point that they simply roll off your tongue.
	www.executive-vocabulary.com (3668 words)

	Cults in France
		One measures at which point it is, under these conditions, difficult to reason in an objective way, to be located between vulgarizing and the diabolisation, blindness and the abusive tolerance on the one hand, generalized suspicion on the other hand: it is however this way which chose the Commission.
		An indirect measurement of cult activity can be provided by the analysis of the phone calls received by the Parisian center of the ADFI which, in 1994, was seen questioning on the activities of 1,150 associations or movements.
		If this measurement is connected more with one survey than with a precise analysis, it makes it possible however to appreciate the proselytism of the various movements, like, probably, their relative audience in Paris area.
	cftf.com /french/Les_Sectes_en_France/cults.html (14821 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Glossary - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The period in English literature between 1750 and 1798, named after the most prominent literary figure of the age, Samuel Johnson.
		Native American literaturewas originally passed on by word of mouth, so it consisted largely of stories and events that were easily memorized.
		Archetype: The word archetype is commonly used to describe an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/glossary (2294 words)

	Roland Items List - English
		The word "baron" is rendered as a "valiant man" rather than a title of nobility in the Japanese translation.
		The current sense of the word stresses how the archbishop was spiritually virtuous, given that he was a man of the cloth.
		In the English translation, it is actually rendered as "cross" which when you look up the dictionary, could mean either a crucifix or a cruxiform staff (such as those carried by the Crusades).
	www.home.ix.netcom.com /~kyamazak/myth/roland/roland-items-e.htm (11157 words)

	100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know published by Houghton Mifflin Company
		• 100 words that all high school graduates — and their parents — should know
		dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.
		"The words we suggest," says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, "are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/100words (140 words)

	Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » How To Hack Chinese MSN Spaces to Use Banned Words
		Doubleaf: If you are in China and you are able to create a blog on MSN Spaces and putted banned keywords in the title, you are probably using the English-language interface to create your blog — the result of connecting to http://spaces.msn.com/ using an English-language browser.
		So for a user with an English browser, the steps to verify the Chinese filtering are: switch to Chinese, create your new MSN Spaces blog, then switch back to English and try to post the banned Chinese words in your blog title.
		Carl: Most email servers list the sending computer’s IP address in the “Received:” header, and allow some other type of “tracking” header for their own (usually spam-tracking) use.
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /?p=232 (2706 words)

	CLAS - Language
		Unlike the Japanese, who simply import foreign words in Katakana form and use them as if they are part of the new Japanese vocabulary, the Chinese have always struggled to translate foreign words into Chinese (e.g., dian4nao3 [electronic brain] for "computer"), with relatively few instances of transliteration (e.g., "kao3bei4" for "copy").
		A lot of Chinese are using straight English words and phrases (not translated or transliterated) in their daily speech.
		Chinese students studying in the U.S. and recent immigrants from China and Taiwan are particularly fond of using English words in Chinese sentences.
	www.sinologic.com /language.html (2370 words)

	Daring Fireball: Tiger Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Recall from an earlier entry in this list that during the boot process, Mac OS X no longer displays status messages telling you which processes are starting when.
		This was a major concern for web designers once word spread that Internet Explorer was no longer included; in previous versions of the OS, these Microsoft fonts were officially considered components of the IE installation.
		Rather than using the selected text as input for the query, it uses whatever word is underneath the mouse cursor.
	daringfireball.net /misc/2005/04/tiger_details (7063 words)

	Cantonese: Measure Words 數量詞
		(the most common of all measure words) for people; for medium-sized, round objects like fruit, bowls, plates and buns; for countries and regions; for abstract nouns like questions, ideas and decisions; for many things that are not easily categorized like drawers and screw drivers
		In English, there are some words we must count in units:
		Whenever you learn new vocabulary, it is a good idea to also learn the associated measure word (MW) with it.
	www.cantonese.ca /mw.php (216 words)

	Common Errors in English
		Speakers of other languages tend to make some specific errors that are uncommon among native speakers, so you may also want to consult sites dealing specifically with English as a second language (see http://www.cln.org/subjects/esl_cur.html and http://esl.about.com/education/adulted/esl/).
		The fact is that the world is full of teachers, employers, and other authorities who may penalize you for your nonstandard use of the English language.
		If you search for the word “English” in Google, which gives a measure of popularity by ranking its results in order of the number of links other people have created to them, my site is number 2.
	www.wsu.edu /~brians/errors (1249 words)

	Word List: Three-Letter Words
		This list consists of 151 very obscure, very short words, each with only three letters.
		My wife has always told me that size doesn't matter, and this list proves that maxim true.
		Note: for a complete list of acceptable two and three-letter Scrabble words, consult this page.
	phrontistery.info /three.html (616 words)

	Word Roots and Prefixes
		This list contains some of the common roots and prefixes that make up the building blocks of numerous English words.
		End note: In my second year of Latin in high school, we were required to find twenty-five Latin word roots and for each root to find five English words containing the root.
		As technology advances, new words are coined to cover some new idea or thing, and often these words are created from existing roots.
	www.virtualsalt.com /roots.htm (324 words)

	The Collected Works of Shakespeare
		Some of them required very minor work to be a in a consistent format--Act instead of ACT in some places, for instance--but such things have been fixed.
		This list of other sites may be of more help to you.
		Please either select plays by name from within the selection list or select a category to search using the checkboxes.
	www.cs.usyd.edu.au /~matty/Shakespeare (632 words)

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