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  2. Four-letter word - Wikipedia

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    The song "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic features the line "hope is our four-letter word". Hate: The band Shock Therapy sang a song "Hate Is a 4-Letter Word". Jazz: A photo-montage by partner-artists Privat & Primat is titled "Jazz and Love are 4-Letter Words". Nice: Good Omens's famous wall scene: Crowley's "I'm not nice; nice is a four-letter ...

  3. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Definition Campana: bell: A bell used in an orchestra; also campane "bells" Cornetto: little horn: An old woodwind instrument Fagotto: bundle: A bassoon, a woodwind instrument played with a double reed Orchestra: orchestra, orig. Greek orkesthai "dance" An ensemble of instruments Piano(forte) soft-loud: A keyboard instrument Piccolo: little: A ...

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    To the, in the manner of (al before masculine nouns, alla before feminine) alcuna licenza Used in con alcuna licenza, meaning (play) with some freedom in the time, see rubato alla breve In cut-time; two beats per measure or the equivalent thereof alla marcia In the style of a march alla polacca In the style of a polonaise, a 3 4 dance alla ...

  5. Etiquette - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-18th century, the first, modern English usage of etiquette (the conventional rules of personal behaviour in polite society) was by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in the book Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774), [9] a correspondence of more than 400 letters written from 1737 ...

  6. Phonics - Wikipedia

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    Reading by using phonics is often referred to as decoding words, sounding-out words or using print-to-sound relationships.Since phonics focuses on the sounds and letters within words (i.e. sublexical), [13] it is often contrasted with whole language (a word-level-up philosophy for teaching reading) and a compromise approach called balanced literacy (the attempt to combine whole language and ...

  7. Manner - Wikipedia

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    Manner (philosophy), a philosophical concept; Manner of (art), a term for art like that of, but not by, a famous artist; Manner of articulation, a concept in linguistics; Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art; Manners, conduct in terms of etiquette

  8. Manners (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Several of the names below have a connection to family of the Dukes of Rutland.The name is of the same origin as Menzies.. Lady Alice Manners (born 1995), British socialite and columnist

  9. Sic - Wikipedia

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    The adverb sic, meaning 'intentionally so written', first appeared in English c. 1856. [4] It is derived from the Latin adverb sīc , which means 'so', 'thus', 'in this manner'. [ 5 ] According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the verbal form of sic , meaning 'to mark with a sic' , emerged in 1889, E. Belfort Bax 's work in The Ethics of ...