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2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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   See List of English words with disputed usage for words that are used in ways that are deprecated by some usage writers but are condoned by some dictionaries. There may be regional variations in grammar, orthography, and word-use, especially between different English-speaking countries.

3. Eye dialect - Wikipedia

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   While mostly used in dialogue, eye dialect may appear in the narrative depiction of altered spelling made by a character (such as in a letter or diary entry), generally used to more overtly depict characters who are poorly educated or semi-literate. [6] The term eye dialect was first used by George Philip Krapp in 1925. "The convention violated ...

4. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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   Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...

5. 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 ...

6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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   Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).

7. American and British English grammatical differences

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   The use of "an" before words beginning with an unstressed "h" is less common generally in AmE. [35] Such usage would now be seen as affected or incorrect in AmE, [36] which normally uses a in all these cases. According to The New Oxford Dictionary of English, such use is also increasingly rare the UK. [34]

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9. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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   Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.