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For words to appear here, they must appear in their own entry in a dictionary; words that occur only as part of a longer phrase are not included. Proper nouns are not included in the list. There are, in addition, many place names and personal names, mostly originating from Arabic-speaking countries, Albania, or China, that have a Q without a U.
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
W&L Washington and Lee University; W&M The College of William & Mary; WashU or Wash U Washington University in St. Louis; Wazzu Washington State University; WC Wagner College; Wilmington College; WCU Western Carolina University; West Chester University; West Point United States Military Academy (aka Army) Western Western Washington University; WFU
The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1] Most terms used here may be found in common dictionaries and general information web sites. [2] [3] [4
Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples lab-, lep-[1]grasp, seize, take: Greek: λαμβάνειν (lambánein), λῆψις (lêpsis), λῆμμα (lêmma)
Bu = listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names [6] CS = listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names [ 7 ] and Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners G = listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants [ 8 ]
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
For example, in such words as little and bottle, one might view le as an "endocentric" digraph for /əl/, or view e as an empty letter; similarly, with bu or u in buy and build. Not all silent letters are completely redundant: Silent letters can distinguish between homophones; e.g., in/inn; be/bee; lent/leant. This is an aid to readers already ...