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The Oxford English Dictionary's first citation for "down town" or "downtown" dates to 1770, in reference to the center of Boston. [6] Some have posited that the term "downtown" was coined in New York City, where it was in use by the 1830s to refer to the original settlement, or town, at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan. [7]
According to any Style guide worth its salt, L'année dernière à Marienbad and À la recherche du temps perdu in English are Last Year at Marienbad and (Yes, I know there are better title translations) In Search of Lost Time. <mild pedantic rant> If you write the title in English, use English capitalisation rules; if you write the title in ...
English: Dolch sight words from Pre-primary through 3rd Grade levels along with their phonetic Hindi counterparts. This is very useful for teaching correct pronounciation of essential english words to anyone familiar with the Hindi / devnagri script. Parents who don't know english can use this to teach the english words to their kids.
A map of Upper Manhattan, with Harlem in red. Upper Manhattan is the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.Its southern boundary has been variously defined, but some of the most common usages are 96th Street, 110th Street (the northern boundary of Central Park), 125th Street, or 155th Street.
Many of the Hindi and Urdu equivalents have originated from Sanskrit; see List of English words of Sanskrit origin. Many loanwords are of Persian origin; see List of English words of Persian origin, with some of the latter being in turn of Arabic or Turkic origin. In some cases words have entered the English language by multiple routes ...
By the 1990s, the terms had largely fallen out of use, with only the merest fraction of the population of Greater New Orleans inhabiting the region once divided into Uptown and Downtown zones. Today, use of the word "downtown" will most likely be taken to mean the CBD/Warehouse District neighborhood (i.e., the area within the DDD's ambit), and ...
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Uptown, entertainment district east of Downtown and Midtown Albuquerque, New Mexico Uptown, area surrounding the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati , Ohio Uptown, a neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio