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	ENGLISH LANGUAGE - LoveToKnow Article on ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The words of ordinary life whose preservation is independent of books lived on as vigorously as ever, but the Literary terms, those that related to science, art and higher culture, the bold artistic compounds, the figurative terms of poetry, were speedily forgotten.
		The origin of the -en plural in the midland dialect, unknown to Old English, is probably an instance of form-levelling, the inflection of the present indicative being assimilated to that of the past, and the present and past subjunctive, in all of which -en was the plural termination.
		The 15th century of English history, with its bloody French war abroad and Wars of the Roses at home, was a barren period in literature, and a transition one in language, witnessing the decay and disappearance of the final e, and most of the syllabic inflections of Middle English.
	58.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EN/ENGLISH_LANGUAGE.htm (10117 words)

	Usage in The American Heritage Dictionary. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is the role of the Dictionary’s Usage Panel, a group of some 200 well-known writers, critics, and scholars (see the list of Panel members).
		Panel members are regularly surveyed on a broad range of usage questions, from the distinction between each other and one another to the status of innovations like lifestyle or the use of demagogue as a verb.
		And in a world where English is established as the language of a heterogeneous international community, the idea that any group or individual might arrogate the authority to fix standards seems not only illiberal but absurd.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/61/7a.html (2118 words)

	Word Studies
		The English in the column Bible may not be the best translation, but as you look up the passage to skim through the story or verse to find the sense of the context, it is helpful to have the Hebrew right beside the English in order to check the exact Hebrew expressions.
		If the word you are studying has a good number of usages in the Old Testament, the etymological background of the word need only be surveyed to see if the word was a stable word down through its history, or if it seemed to change its meaning from culture to culture, or century to century.
		Words may be interpreted by reference to the meaning of another word (usually better known) in Hebrew which had a certain similarity to it, and could be taken as the root.
	www.christianleadershipcenter.org /wordstudies.htm (10072 words)

	Articles - List of words of disputed pronunciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The following is a list of words and names which are often pronounced by native speakers of the English language in ways which many others consider to be incorrect.
		However, when Linus Torvalds describes the pronunciation in terms of English words and uses English words with the short (or lax) vowels, one might conclude that his intention is for Linux to be pronounced with those vowels in English, as (1).
		This Scots word for lake is pronounced by most English speakers as (1), with a final [k], as the voiceless velar fricative [x] is not normally in the sound inventory of English.
	www.gaple.com /articles/List_of_words_of_disputed_pronunciation (4547 words)

	::Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage::
		Take, for example, the Descriptivism claim that so-called correct English usages such as brought rather than brung and felt rather than feeled are arbitrary and restrictive and unfair and are supported only by custom and are (like irregular verbs in general) archaic and incommodious and an all-around pain in the ass.
		Other differences have more to do with style--for instance, Standard Written English tends to use a lot more subordinate clauses in the early parts of sentences, and it sets off most of these early subordinates with commas, and, under SWE rules, writing that doesn't do this is "choppy." There are tons of differences like that.
		His judgments about usage tend to be rendered like legal opinions--exhaustive citation of precedent (other dictionaries' judgments, published examples of actual usage) combined with clear, logical reasoning that's always informed by the larger consensual purposes SWE is meant to serve.
	www.csubak.edu /~mault/fosterwallace.htm (10006 words)

	Like (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The appropriateness of its usage as a conjunction is still List of English words with disputed usagedisputed, however.
		However, nontraditional usage of the word has been around at least since the 1950s, introduced through beatnikbeat and jazz culture.
		Such usage of the word had been made popular in Scooby Doo, in which ''like'' has been used by Shaggy for numerous occasions.
	www.infothis.com /find/Like (898 words)

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		It is possible for members of the public to join English Heritage: membership confers benefits (such as free admission to properties) but does not give the member a say in the running of the organization, which is a direct result of government policy.
		To some, English Heritage are thus an unelected quango with a considerable degree of power and access to public money derived directly or indirectly from taxation, who are empowered to charge admission fees to properties which they have acquired to (amongst others) taxpayers who are already paying for them.
	www.fact-library.com /english_heritage.html (354 words)

	C. J. Cherryh - Antique words
		Consult the right hand for words to watch out for: words that are too modern, slang, or out of place in any attempt to render an old style.
		Sometimes it's useful to look up the other word, too: sometimes both are acceptable, but at least the left hand column will give you a sense of what to look for and what should trigger alarm bells in a writer attempting the older style.
		At a certain point in the list (which is not scholarly, but rather composed as my own checklist) you will find I reverse the procedure and list modern things and their equivalents in the pre-1900's world.
	www.cherryh.com /www/antique1.htm (1390 words)

	list of latin phrases
		In current US legal usage, a brief submitted to the court by a third party.
		First two words of the Writ to bring a prisoner to court (Charles II of England, Habeas corpus Act - 1679)and commonly used as the general term for a prisoner's legal right to have the charge against specifically identified
		Motto of the American state of Virginia and said to have been shouted by John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
	www.fact-library.com /list_of_latin_phrases.html (2719 words)

	English-English-English electronic dictionaries. English English language translators Ectaco.
		The closest and most useful alternative words are given first, with the word which is closest in meaning in the entry word set in capitals.
		An additional highlight is the SAT Words tutor, a fun but educational vocabulary training aid that is perfect for all students of English.
		Create a study list of words and let a fellow student or family member have their own study list.
	www.freelang.net /ectaco/dictionaries/english.html (2200 words)

	Harper's Magazine: Tense Present.
		[32] Latin infinitives consist of one word and are impossible to as it were split, and the earliest English Prescriptivists — so enthralled with Latin that their English usage guides were actually written in Latin [33] — decided that English infinitives shouldn't be split either.
		His 1926 A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is the granddaddy of modern usage guides, and its dust-dry wit and blushless imperiousness have been models for every subsequent classic in the field, from Eric Partridge's Usage and Abusage to Theodore Bernstein's The Careful Writer to Wilson Follett's Modern American Usage to Gilman's '89 Webster's.
		This was in his 1946 "Politics and the English Language," an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese.
	instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/DFW_present_tense.html (12545 words)

	E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore
		Both given forms of the word are obscure and in a sense incorrect — added reason to deem them coinages of Poe, whose seemingly clear explanation in the text has precluded questioning by American scholars.
		We definitely disbelieve the origin as given of his "technical" word "arrondées" to describe rounded or nicked playing cards, since a French word hased on a verb "to round" would have to be spelled "arrondies" for the feminine plural, modifying the cards ("cartes") in the game écarté.
		In reality, "arrondi" is used in English as an adjective for heraldic descriptions and also in the terminology of the ballet for curved or rounded arm postures or leg movements (q.v.
	www.eapoe.org /papers/psblctrs/pl19741s.htm (11912 words)

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