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(p) = pseudo-blend, e.g.: UNIFEM – (p) United Nations Development Fund for Women (s) = symbol (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz – megahertz ) Some terms are spoken as either acronym or initialism, e.g., VoIP , pronounced both as voyp and V-O-I-P .
The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...
The ology ending is a combination of the letter o plus logy in which the letter o is used as an interconsonantal letter which, for phonological reasons, precedes the morpheme suffix logy. [1] Logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία (-logia). [2]
This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter P. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
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
Karl Egon Ebert (1801–1882, Austrian E/Bohemia, p/d) Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916, Austrian E/Moravia, f) Moussa Ould Ebnou (born 1956, Mauritania, f)
E.g. is not usually followed by a comma in British English, but it often is in American usage. E.g. is often confused with i.e. (id est, meaning ' that is ' or ' in other words '). [12] Some writing styles give such abbreviations without punctuation, as ie and eg. [a] Exemplum virtutis: a model of virtue exercitus sine duce corpus est sine spiritu
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).