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  2. Doublet (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Most simply, a native word can at some point split into two distinct forms, staying within a single language, as with English too which split from to. [3] Alternatively, a word may be inherited from a parent language, and a cognate borrowed from a separate sister language. In other words, one route was direct inheritance, while the other route ...

  3. Doublet–triplet splitting problem - Wikipedia

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    In particle physics, the doublet–triplet (splitting) problem is a problem of some Grand Unified Theories, such as SU(5), SO(10), and . Grand unified theories predict Higgs bosons (doublets of S U ( 2 ) {\displaystyle SU(2)} ) arise from representations of the unified group that contain other states, in particular, states that are triplets of ...

  4. Line breaking rules in East Asian languages - Wikipedia

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    Many word processing and desktop publishing software products have built-in features to control line breaking rules in those languages. In the Japanese language, especially, the categories of line breaking rules and processing methods are determined by the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 4051 , and it is called Kinsoku Shori ( 禁則処理 ) .

  5. Legal doublet - Wikipedia

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    A legal doublet is a standardized phrase used frequently in English legal language consisting of two or more words that are irreversible binomials and frequently synonyms, usually connected by "and", such as "null and void".

  6. Category:Splits and mergers in English phonology - Wikipedia

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    A split in phonology is where a once identical phoneme diverges in different instances. A merger is the opposite: where two (or more) phonemes merge and become indistinguishable. In English, this happens most often with vowels, although not exclusively. See phonemic differentiation for more information.

  7. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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    Old English origin words Old French origin words notes thinking, mindful pensive [2]kingly royal [2]almighty omnipotent brotherly fraternal [2]motherly

  8. Double articulation - Wikipedia

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    The French concept of double articulation was first introduced by André Martinet in 1949, and elaborated in his Éléments de linguistique générale (1960). [3] The English translation [4] double articulation is a French calque for double articulation (spelled exactly the same in French).

  9. Word ladder - Wikipedia

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    Lewis Carroll's doublet in Vanity Fair, March 1897 changing the word "head" to "tail" in five steps, one letter at a time. Word ladder (also known as Doublets, [1] word-links, change-the-word puzzles, paragrams, laddergrams, [2] or word golf) is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the ...