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British English American English Longsleeve knit top jumper [1] sweater [2] [3] Sleeveless knit top sleeveless jumper, slipover, [4] knit tank top sweater vest [3] Sleeveless dress worn over a shirt Pinafore, pinny, pinafore dress [5] Jumper, jumper dress, dress Old-fashioned style of apron Pinafore apron [6] Pinafore, pinafore apron [6]
The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English word families [1] which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The target readership is English as a second or foreign language students intending to enter English-medium higher education , and teachers of such students.
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show the equivalent words you need to learn in the other language to achieve fluency. A big list will constantly show you what words you don't know and what you need to work on and is useful for testing yourself.
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ― George Burns “The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.”
Each side had strong family ties. The brothers James, Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan, and Warren Earp were a tight-knit family, working together as lawmen, pimps, and saloon owners in several frontier towns, among other occupations, and had
I emm I.not tʹēdʹ know koalʹe if Evvan Ivan li is puadtma. come. Mun emm tʹēdʹ koalʹe Evvan li puadtma. I I.not know if Ivan is come. "I don't know if/whether Ivan has come." Negative clause in present tense: Sōnn s/he ejj s/he.not tʹēdtma knew. CN koalʹe if sōnn s/he jo already ujjtma gone li. is Sōnn ejj tʹēdtma koalʹe sōnn jo ujjtma li. s/he s/he.not knew.CN if s/he ...