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  2. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    abbreviation for Reduction In Force; i.e. to be honorably discharged from employment [787] (UK: redundancy, made redundant, laid off *, paid off) roil to render muddy by stirring up the dregs of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc., in casks or bottles; to roil a spring; also, to disquiet or disturb (also rile in the sense of "to anger", riled up for ...

  3. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    One can also find a way around this verb, using another one which does not is used to express idiomatic expressions nor necessitate a pleonasm, because it only has one meaning: 我要就寝 ('I want "to dorm " ') Nevertheless, 就寝 is a verb used in high-register diction, just like English verbs with Latin roots.

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Woman is the singular form of the word for an adult human female. Women is the plural form. Non-standard : USADA is the national anti-doping partner of the Olympics, and Rousey spent much of her childhood training to compete in the Games, eventually becoming the first American women to medal in judo with her 2008 bronze medal campaign in Beijing.

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    the symbol '/' (orig. US) (also virgule, solidus; UK also: oblique, stroke) short for slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction that explores romantic or sexual relationships between same-sex characters an open tract in a forest strewn with debris, especially from logging a swampy area slate

  6. English markers of habitual aspect - Wikipedia

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    This verb form has a phonological distinction: used is pronounced /juːst/, in contrast to the ordinary verb use /juːz/ and its past form used /juːzd/ (as in I used your scissors this morning). Used to is typically employed without a specific indication of the time of occurrence—e.g., We used to go there has the same meaning as We used to ...

  7. Hilarious Theme Song Accompanies Racist Woman As She’s ...

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    A woman was reportedly removed from a United Airlines flight after trying to open the emergency door and making racist comments — and the first class cabin gave her a hilarious sendoff. An ...

  8. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    odd, mad, eccentric, daffy, crazy – often with the implication of it being amusingly so. "Don't be daft" and "don't be silly" are approximately synonymous. defeating the ends of justice Scotland only; [61] England and Wales equivalent is perverting the course of justice (similar concept in US: obstruction of justice) dekko

  9. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.