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Lists of English words of foreign origin (5 C, 52 P) F. Lists of French words of foreign origin (6 P) G. Lists of loanwords of Germanic origin (13 P) I.
gravlax, "salmon cured especially with salt, sugar, pepper, and dill and often additional ingredients (such as fennel, coriander, lime, and vodka or aquavit)" [5] gyttja, "a lacustrine mud containing abundant organic material" [6] lek, "an assembly area where animals (such as the prairie chicken) carry on display and courtship behavior" [7]
Weinreich (1953: 47) defines simple words "from the point of view of the bilinguals who perform the transfer, rather than that of the descriptive linguist. Accordingly, the category 'simple' words also includes compounds that are transferred in unanalysed form". After this general classification, Weinreich then resorts to Betz's (1949) terminology.
OTCWL2016, [d] a minor update in 2016, added over 1,000 nine-letter words. The 2018 update NWL2018 [ e ] added over 3,000 words, including additions to OSPD6 and MWCD, and ten-letter words from COD2. It was produced by NASPA in collaboration with Merriam-Webster, and under its own copyright for the first time.
Lown may refer to: Lown (surname) Lown-e Kohneh, a Kurdistan Province; Lown-e Sadat, a Kurdistan Province; Lown-Berkovits, a cardiac defibrillator waveform;
Lown–Ganong–Levine syndrome: LGM: lymphogranulomatosis maligna LGSIL: low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion: LGV: lymphogranuloma venereum: LH: luteinizing ...
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 longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz. [32]