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  2. International Corpus of English - Wikipedia

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    The father of the project, Sidney Greenbaum, insisted on the primacy of the spoken word, following Randolph Quirk and Jan Svartvik's collaboration on the original London-Lund Corpus (LLC). This emphasis on word-for-word transcription marks out ICE from many other corpora, including those containing, e.g. parliamentary or legal paraphrases.

  3. Eskimo words for snow - Wikipedia

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    Languages in the Inuit and Yupik language groups add suffixes to words to express the same concepts expressed in English and many other languages by means of compound words, phrases, and even entire sentences. One can create a practically unlimited number of new words in the Eskimoan languages on any topic, not just snow, and these same ...

  4. Fire and Ice (Hunter novel) - Wikipedia

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    Fire and Ice was first published as a hardcover by HarperCollins in the US on 1 June 2003. [2] The paperback version was released on 1 June 2004, [3] and an e-book version was released on 9 September 2007. [4] An English Kindle edition is also available. [5] Fire and Ice was published in Canada on 20 May 2004, [6] and in the United Kingdom in ...

  5. List of literary works by number of translations - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Mormon: See Origin of the Book of Mormon: 1830: 115 [15] English: 13 Asterix: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: 1959–present: 115 [16] (not all volumes are available in all languages) French: 14 The Quran: See History of the Quran: 650 >114 [17] [18] Classical Arabic: 15 The Way to Happiness: L. Ron Hubbard: 1980: 114 [19] English ...

  6. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    The following conventions are used: Cognates are in general given in the oldest well-documented language of each family, although forms in modern languages are given for families in which the older stages of the languages are poorly documented or do not differ significantly from the modern languages.

  7. Antarctic English - Wikipedia

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    Antarctic English is a variety of the English language spoken by people living on the continent of Antarctica and within the subantarctic islands. [1]: vii Spoken primarily by scientists and workers in the Antarctic tourism industry, [2] it consists of various unique words and is spoken with a unique accent.

  8. Weather Words: Winter Storm Vs Ice Storm - AOL

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    An ice storm is when sleet and freezing rain is expected.This can create impossible travel conditions and many other hazards. Even a small amount of ice can turn roads into ice skating rinks, coat ...

  9. Icefire (d'Lacey novel) - Wikipedia

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    Beth L. Meister, writing for School Library Journal, compared Icefire to early books in the series, noting that the novel "offers a darker and more mature story" than The Fire Within. Further, Meister found that "Liz's clay dragons develop a greater degree of realism within the story, and their background is further explored".