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Karl is cognate to the Old English churl, or ceorl, meaning a man, or a non-servile peasant. [2] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle uses hiredmenn as a term for all paid warriors and thus is applied to housecarl, but it also refers to butsecarls [a] and lithsmen. It is not clear whether these were types of housecarl or different altogether.
Possible etymology: Sanskrit alu, meaning "float, raft, water pot, small water jar" Ptolemy, Jordanes: Amutrion, Amutria Motru: Skt. *mūtra "dripping water, urine", Skt. Jīmūta, "clouds that cause rain but not thunder" [63] Argessos, Ordessos Argeș: Buseos Buzău: Originally Μ[π]ουσεος, where Μπ is pronounced as B: Crisus Criș ...
Dissociated press is a parody generator (a computer program that generates nonsensical text). The generated text is based on another text using the Markov chain technique. The name is a play on "Associated Press" and the psychological term dissociation (although word salad is more typical of conditions like aphasia and schizophrenia – which is, however, frequently confused with dissociative ...
Some languages use 'n-gram' data, [7] which is massive and requires considerable processing power and I/O speed, for some extra detections. As such, LanguageTool is also offered as a web service that does the processing of 'n-grams' data on the server-side. LanguageTool "Premium" also uses n-grams as part of its freemium business model.
During the attack the vårbelger and supporters of Skule used this defensive position to throw rocks at the enemy, a somewhat unusual strategy given the improvised nature of the fortifications. [6] The fighting of the battle is said to have been very fierce on both sides to the extent that the kings Hauberk was destroyed. [ 6 ]
The Mad Libs books were conceived around the same time as Strachey wrote the love letter generator. [ 3 ] It was also preceded by John Clark 's Latin Verse Machine (1830-1843), the first automated text generator.
Richard Huskard (fl. 1278?–1333) was an Anglo-Irish settler. He was an ancestor of the family of Skerrett, who later became one of The Tribes of Galway.Later bearers of the name included John Skerrett (Mayor) (fl.1491–1492) and John Skerrett (Augustinian) (c.1620–c.1688).
A hersir was a local Viking military commander of a hundred (a county subdivision), of about 100 men, and owed allegiance to a jarl or king. They were also aspiring landowners, and, like the middle class in many feudal societies, supported the kings in their centralization of power.