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  2. Lists of pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...

  3. Dolch word list - Wikipedia

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    The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words (also known as sight words), compiled by Edward William Dolch, a major proponent of the "whole-word" method of beginning reading instruction. The list was first published in a journal article in 1936 [1] and then published in his book Problems in Reading in 1948. [2]

  4. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. List of beings referred to as fairies - Wikipedia

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    Used as a patron Saint of lost children, who look after and protect them when kids go missing. Associated with caves. Memegwesi- hairy little people of Anishinaabeg lore who live in burrows along rivers, throwing rocks at passersby and capsizing canoes.

  6. Lexical lists - Wikipedia

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    Erim-huš = anantu, a list explaining rare words in literary texts giving brief sequences of synonyms or near-synonyms on 7 tablets [5] [MSL XVII [p 12]] Fāra god lists (there are at least five), the earliest extant god-lists with around 500 of them listed without elaboration, from Šuruppak c. 2600 BC [p 16] Fish, archaic word-list

  7. Category:Lists of loanwords - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help Subcategories. This category has the following 10 ...

  8. Poetic contraction - Wikipedia

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    In languages like French, elision removes the end syllable of a word that ends with a vowel sound when the next begins with a vowel sound, in order to avoid hiatus, or retain a consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel rhythm. [2] These poetic contractions originate from archaic English. By the end of the 18th century, contractions were generally looked ...

  9. List of angels in theology - Wikipedia

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    A list of 72 angels of the 9 choir orders, with esoteric meaning related to the names of God Selaphiel: Sealtiel, Selatiel Christianity Archangel Patron saint of prayer and worship Seraph (type) [note 1] Seraphim (plural) Christianity, Islam, Judaism (type) Seraphiel [19] Christianity, Judaism Seraph Protector of Metatron, chief of seraphim ...