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Drumgooland is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated mainly in the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Lower Half , with one townland in the barony of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half .
Derryneill (from Irish Doire Néill, meaning 'Niall's oak-wood') [1] is a townland of 1,049 acres in County Down, Northern Ireland, near to Leitrim, County Down.It is situated in the civil parish of Drumgooland and the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Lower Half. [2]
1711 – George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo, the first Italian-language opera written specifically for the London stage, premiered. 1809 – Napoleonic Wars : French admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (pictured) unconditionally surrendered to British forces, ending their invasion of Martinique and beginning a five-year occupation of the island.
Leitrim (from Irish Liatroim 'grey ridge'), is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland, approximately 3 miles from Castlewellan, near Dromara, in the parish of Drumgooland. It is set between the Dromara Hills (Slieve Croob) and the Mourne Mountains. It is claimed to be home to the MacCartan clan of Kinelarty. [1]
It is generally stated that English has around 170,000 words, or 220,000 if obsolete words are counted; this estimate is based on the last full edition of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1989. [238] Over half of these words are nouns, a quarter adjectives, and a seventh verbs.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition The third edition contained "more than 200,000 boldface forms" (entries). [ 57 ] The fourth and fifth editions each added roughly 10,000 additional "new words and senses". [ 58 ]
Langenscheidt dictionaries in various languages A multi-volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini Dictionary definition entries. A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions ...
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