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2. Yo (greeting) - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 December 2024. Interjection Yo is a slang interjection, commonly associated with North American English. It was popularized by the Italian-American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the 1940s. Although often used as a greeting and often deployed at the beginning of a sentence, yo may also ...

3. Yo-yo - Wikipedia

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   The word yo-yo probably comes from the Ilocano term yóyo, or a cognate word from the Philippines. [1] [2]Boy playing with a terracotta yo-yo, Attic kylix, c. 440 BC, Antikensammlung Berlin (F 2549) A 1791 illustration of a woman playing with an early version of the yo-yo, which was then called a "bandalore" Lady with a yo-yo, Northern India (Rajasthan, Bundi or Kota), c. 1770 Opaque ...

4. String grammar - Wikipedia

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   A string grammar can be used to describe the structure of some natural languages, such as English or French, [2] [3] as well as for some computer languages. Note that the string-based structure is for defining the grammar of a language, rather than the formatting of the language itself. The production rules, of the grammar, are in the form of ...

5. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo ...

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   v. the verb "buffalo" meaning to outwit, confuse, deceive, intimidate, or baffle. The sentence is syntactically ambiguous; one possible parse (marking each "buffalo" with its part of speech as shown above) is as follows: Buffalo a buffalo n Buffalo a buffalo n buffalo v buffalo v Buffalo a buffalo n.

6. Diabolo - Wikipedia

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   The diabolo (/ d iː ˈ æ b ə l oʊ / dee-AB-ə-loh; [1] commonly misspelled diablo) is a juggling or circus prop consisting of an axle (British English: bobbin) and two cups (hourglass/egg timer shaped) or discs derived from the Chinese yo-yo. This object is spun using a string attached to two hand sticks ("batons" or

7. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. Yo - Wikipedia

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   Yo (app), a social application; YO! Sushi, a chain of sushi restaurants; Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia (ISO 3166-2 code ID-YO) YO postcode area, England; Yo-leven, a roll of 11 in the game of craps; Y O, a strain of potato virus Y; Yttrium(II) oxide, YO, a dark brown chemical compound "years old", an informal abbreviation for a person ...

9. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.