Most Italian words end with a vowel. ... The first dictionary for Italian was edited in 1612 by the Accademia Della Crusca, an Italian society for scholars and Italian linguists established in Florence. ... The dictionary, 'Vocabolario della lingua italiana,' published by the Accademia was the first known Italian dictionary which also served as the model for similar works in French, Spanish, German and English. ... In Italian nouns that end with an 'o' are masculine and nouns that end with an 'a' are feminine. ... Some examples of words that could be mascu...

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This study into the analysis of linguistics deals with The Peterborough Chronicle' . ... The semantics of these words can be obtained using any dictionary once they have been translated to their modern equivalents. ... Gre (line 1) (Oxford English Dictionary or OED) means year in the modern equivalent and is derived originally from and Anglian dialect of OE. ... Unfortunately none of the previously stated differences are visible, meaning that the extract that we are dealing with cannot be used as evidence for or against this argument. ... This shows the comparative in that no martyrs wer...

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In fact, Michael Adams is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Albright College and the editor of Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. ... He begins with slayer jargon, differentiating it from the slang by associating it with general terms used on the show like: Slayer, Watcher, Hellmouth, Bronze, stake, undead, etc. ... For example, slayer slang stretches -age beyond its established boundaries for use, producing words such as sparkage to indicate a spark of romance, not of fire (p65). ... Original meanings can go out the window wit...

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For example, in India and Singapore, some non-native speakers become familiar with English from an early age and use the language routinely (Pakir, 1991). ... It also refers to a variety that has been codified, and represented in dictionaries and grammars. ... For example, many parents in Singapore want their children to excel in the English language. ... For example, Hispanics who live in the Bronx speak Engloish differently from Caucasians who live in Washington D.C.. ... She does not continue to do the same once she is with her close friends or with her family members. ...

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For example the three words charade', cholesterol' and church'; they all begin with the identical spelling of ch' but have three different sounds at the beginning. ... Charade begins with a [á] (Davenport and Hannahs 1998) sound, cholesterol with [k] and church with [tá]. ... An example could be the word chitin' which has a dictionary reference (Hawker 2001: 144) of n. a fibrous substance which forms the external skeletons of some insects, spiders and crustaceans'. ... Namely Latin, French and German although there are many other examples. ... Retu...

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Auxiliary verbs came into use, for example the use of?... The significant change in English sentences was the level of complexity with new structures to support it. ... The changes in grammar during the early modern period were more far reaching the examples given. ... However, none of these achived anything like the stabilizing effect on orthography which ultimately proceeded from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) whose spelling has become the 'normal' spelling of?... With the introdution of?...

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I must be able to communicate with my peers and with those who I interact with on a regular basis. ... I use what some would call slang which should not be confused with ebonics. ... For example, in Shakespeare's time, many contractions used today were considered poor English. ... There are words used specifically for the Internet, usually acronyms that are universally understood, that will probably appear in dictionaries in the future. ... With no interest"(Smitherman 164). ...

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