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	list of greek words with english derivatives - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Greek had no letter h: a rough breathing over an initial vowel or diphthong – – indicates that the word was pronounced with an initial h, and a smooth breathing – – indicates the absence of an h, but this has since disappeared in speech, and Modern Greek omits the breathings.
		The Citation form shown is the form most commonly shown in dictionaries, but this form is often unrepresentative of the word as used to form a compound word, hence the Root form is also shown.
		The Greek words are shown in polytonic orthography, in other words showing the breathings and the fuller range of accents, as used in Ancient Greek.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/list-of-greek-words-with-english-derivatives (377 words)

	English words with uncommon properties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the purposes of this article, any word which has appeared in a recognised general English dictionary published in the 20th century or later is considered a candidate.
		However, cwm (pronounced "koom", defined as a steep-walled hollow on a hillside) is a rare case of a word using w to represent a nucleus vowel, as is crwth (pronounced "krooth", a type of stringed instrument).
		The longest one-syllable word in the English language is either squirrelled, scraunched, or one of several 9-letter words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_unusual_English_words (1365 words)

	Global English
		The nearest rival to English in sheer fecundity is Chinese, and with 1.3 billion Chinese now being officially urged to learn English, the result is nomogamosis (It is on the list: “A state of marital harmony; a condition in which spouses are well matched.”) and many, many offspring, some of them rather sweet.
		Language is a fascinating thing, the most complex of human achievements, spontaneously evolved, one unique word or expression at a time, without government control -- for that matter, without government interest (aside from official language status).
		English is to language as capitalism is to economics.
	www.languagemonitor.com /Global_English.html (2119 words)

	List of trivia lists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of cities claiming to be built on seven hills
		List of songs with the word "song" in their title or lyrics
		List of theme songs which mention their show in the lyrics
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_trivia_lists (211 words)

	THE INFLUENCE OF FRENCH ON ENGLISH IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
		For a greater portion of the Middle English period (M.E.) French (Fr.) was the governing vernacular of England.
		At the open of the EModE period, a common complaint made by many intellectuals was that the English vernacular was insufficient to express the abstract ideas and the range of thought embodied in the ancient languages (Latin and Greek).
		The present War has so Adulterated our Tongue with strange Words, that it would be impossible for one of our Great Grandfathers to know what his Posterity had been doing, were he to read their Exploits in a Modern News Paper.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/6362Jurcic1.htm (2770 words)

	English Gematria
		Elizabeth I ascended the throne and the expansion of empire began carrying the English language to the four corners of the earth.
		Mostly in those other languages the word values are totaled up and compared to numbers already seen to exist in names, places and even physical measurements of our reality, like the diameter of the moon.
		Word placing usually suggests which word is to be used for any particular story, and in reference to the breakaway of Manasseh from the homeland come the word Secession on 108, making a reverse pairing with Manasseh 80.
	www.asis.com /~stag/englishg.html (5917 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)

	Linguist List - Web Resource Listings
		All the English words in the dictionary are found in the CLUVI Corpus, as well as all of the Galician translations.
		Dictionary of The Spoken Taino Language: A tri-lingual Taino, Spanish and English dictionary of the Taino language.
		English Turkish Dictionary of Psychology: A comprehensive English Turkish dictionary of psychology and related fields with definitions in Turkish compiled and edited by a psychologist.
	linguistlist.org /sp/Dict.html (6051 words)

	free expressions meanings, words, phrases origins and derivations
		In the traditional English game of nine-pins (the pins were like skittles, of the sort that led to the development of tenpin bowling), when the pins were knocked over leaving a triangular formation of three standing pins, the set was described as having been knocked into a cocked hat.
		The use of the word English to mean spin may also have referred to the fact that the leather tip of a billiard cue which enables better control of the ball was supposedly an English invention.
		During the 1900's the word was shortened and commonly the hyphen erroneously added, resulting from common confusion and misinterpretation of the 'ex' prefix, which was taken to mean 'was', as in ex-wife, ex-president, etc., instead of 'ex' meaning 'out', as in expatriate, expel, exhaust, etc. Strictly speaking therefore, the correct form is expat, not ex-pat.
	www.businessballs.com /clichesorigins.htm (14117 words)

	WORDS 1.97F (LATIN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY) PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION
		The FREQ is indicates the relative usage of the word or inflection, from indications is dictionary citations.
		An argument against a large stem list is that it increases the storage required (but this is extremely modest by current standards) and increases processing time for search of the stems (this is far offset by the processing which would be required to construct or analyze words working from a smaller stem list).
		Natus conflicts with the fourth stem of nascor (be produced/born) and the nouns and adjectives stemming from it.
	users.erols.com /whitaker/wordsdoc.htm (19077 words)

	Confusing Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
		The use of the word "rights" in this term is propaganda, designed to lead you unawares into seeing the issue from the viewpoint of the few that impose the restrictions, while ignoring that of the many on whom the restrictions are imposed.
		By using a word in your own language, you show that you are really referring to freedom and not just parroting some mysterious foreign marketing concept.
		This word carries the implication of preventing destruction or suffering; therefore, it encourages people to identify with the owner and publisher who benefit from copyright, rather than with the users who are restricted by it.
	www.gnu.org /philosophy/words-to-avoid.html (2191 words)

	Chapter 1: History of English - van Gelderen
		English is Germanic in origin but roughly half of its words derive from contacts with French and Latin.
		English has expanded from having a few speakers in one area to having many speakers in many geographic areas.
		In the same vein, Brithenig is a look at what the language of the British Isles might have looked like if Latin had replaced the native Celtic languages, but had in turn been influenced by them.
	www.public.asu.edu /~gelderen/hel/chap1.html (244 words)

	World Wide Words
		A strange report appeared in the Observer last Sunday.
		It said that the British Department of Transport has produced a list of the most environmentally friendly vehicles...
		Hugger-mugger This word was in the news recently, used to refer to a woman thief in New York who waits for men coming out of downtown bars, cuddles them and pinches their wallets.
	www.worldwidewords.org (645 words)

	"Word Safari: Megalist of Word Links" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Words of Art -- Lengthy glossary of concepts, schools of thought, methods, and other terminology pertaining to all the arts.
		Words, Words, and More Words -- Collection of articles on topics ranging from scrabble to haiku to millennium toasts.
		The Language of the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings -- An overview of how the language of Britain changed after the 5th- and 6th-century Germanic invasions, showing the Anglo-Saxon roots of modern words.
	home.earthlink.net /~ruthpett/safari/megalist.htm (3961 words)

	KryssTal : Borrowed Words in English: Anglo-Saxon
		Anglo-Saxon is a precursor of the English language spoken in
		The base vocabulary of English comes from Anglo-Saxon but these are some of the more common proper nouns including days of the week and festivals.
		A short history of the world's most widespread language from its Anglo Saxon origins via Norman and Latin influences to Modern English.
	www.krysstal.com /borrow_anglosaxon.html (131 words)

	The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
		The selection of words was based on a frequency analysis of 10 years of S.A.T. tests.
		They will feature an idea word for the week, and then a related word each day - one that could appear in an analogy test.
		a list of things to be done or acted upon in some way: the agenda for the club meeting.
	www.lightlink.com /bobp/wedt/sat.htm (2037 words)

	Interesting English Language Trivia
		Also found were the 11-letter words "proprietory", and "proterotype", which don't appear in The Hypertext Webster Gateway.
		Also found were the 8-letter words "flagfall", "galagala", "galahads", and "haskalah", which don't appear in The Hypertext Webster Gateway.
		Also found were the 13-letter words "antiendowment", "antisudorific", "autotoxicosis", and "neurotoxicity", which don't appear in The Hypertext Webster Gateway.
	www.ojohaven.com /fun/trivia.html (524 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)

	Overview of the English Language to Help You Learn English
		English belongs to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
		The great number of words found in the English vocabulary is in large part due to extensive borrowings from other languages, including Latin, French, Low German, and the Scandinavian languages.
		A dialect can be defined as a "variation of a language used by a group of speakers set apart from others geographically or socially." Using this definition, it is easy to identify English as a language with many dialects.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/english/overview.htm (560 words)

	American English
		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.
		In British English a washroom is a place where one goes to wash. The words "john" and "jakes" perhaps both derive from the French "Jacques".
	www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html (12175 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)

	languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS.
		An idiotic list of alleged mispronunciations compiled by someone going by the alias "Dr. Language" has been making the rounds of the internet, and now that it's turned up on MetaFilter as well, I guess I'll bite the bullet and blog the thing.
		If you want to know how a word is pronounced or what it means, go to a dictionary—that's what they're for, and they're compiled by people who spend their lives studying this stuff for real, not passionate amateurs with websites.
		Lists of common misspellings can at least claim some methodological credibility; this is merely a list of one person's bizarre prejudices.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001217.php (4666 words)

	yourDictionary.com • 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words
		Now that Dr. Language has provided a one-stop cure for the plague of misspelling, here are the 100 words most often mispronounced English words ("mispronunciation" among them).
		The word is spelled "forte" but the [e] is pronounced only when speaking of music, as a "forte passage." The words for a strong point and a stronghold are pronounced the same: [fort].
		This word has not moved far enough away from French to assume an English pronunciation, [mawv], and should still be pronounced [mowv].
	www.yourdictionary.com /library/mispron.html (2481 words)

	Yamada Language Center: English Mailing Lists
		This is a mailing list from a wordserver which mails out an English vocabulary word and its definition (with occasional commentary) daily.
		LOWLANDS-L is an automated worldwide electronic mail list for those who are interested in the languages and cultures of the lowlands adjacent to the coast of the North Sea and of Baltic Sea.
		Weekly mailing list is for ESL teachers and learners of English with amazing facts, stories, tips, news and more.
	babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/lists/english.html (494 words)

	Comments on 10490 \| Ask MetaFilter
		Japanese, for example, has a word for blue (aoi), and a word for green (midori), but uses "aoi" in many situations where we'd use "green." Stoplights, greengrocers, and a sick person's skin are all aoi.
		The Italians even have a word for the mark left on a table by a moist glass (culacino) while the Gaelic speakers of Scotland, not to be outdone, have a word for the itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky (sgriob).
		I like the fact that Turkish has 2 different words for "why" (both of which are contained in the English word): "neden" meaning "from what" eg, "What is the cause of..?" and "nicin", literally "for what?" as in "what is the purpose of?".
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/10490 (7968 words)

	Glossaries by Language
		The List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature includes, alphabetically and chronologically, the official nomenclature of bacteria and the nomenclatural changes as cited in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, or published, or validated in the International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1997, 47, 590-592).
		English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
		Eurovoc - 11 language thesaurus maintained by the EU Eurovoc is a multilingual thesaurus covering the fields in which the European Communities are active; it provides a means of indexing the documents in the documentation systems of the European institutions and of their users.
	www.lai.com /glossaries.html (3279 words)

	Khowar English Dictionary
		Khowar is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 250,000 native speakers in Chitral, which is in the far North West corner of Pakistan.
		Among these, the most interesting are the /chh/ aspirated and /ch/ non-aspirated sounds, of which the word Chitral itself is an example.
		Here is a short sample list of more than 500 Khowar words, which gives examples of the difficult phonemes.
	www.ishipress.com /khow-lst.htm (624 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)

	Strange & Unusual References
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		The entry above was selected at random from One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
	www.oneletterwords.com /index.php (138 words)

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