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  2. Signing Exact English - Wikipedia

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    SEE employs English word order, the addition of affixes and tenses, the creation of new signs not represented in ASL and the use of initials with base signs to distinguish between related English words. [7] SEE-II is available in books and other materials. SEE-II includes roughly 4,000 signs, 70 of which are common word endings or markers.

  3. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Other filler words include 何とか nantoka, 何たら nantara and 何何 naninani. These can be used for a person whose name has been temporarily forgotten (e.g. なんとかちゃん nantoka-chan, roughly "Miss What's-her-name" in the third person).

  4. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).

  5. Person having ordinary skill in the art - Wikipedia

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    A person having ordinary skill in the art is a legal fiction first codified in the Patent Act of 1952. [6] The PHOSITA is a test of "obviousness" which is one of the largest gray areas in patent law. The concept was carried over into the Leahy–Smith America Invents Act:

  6. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Words that carry meaning; usually nouns, verbs and sometimes adjectives and adverbs. Context clues Clues used when guessing word meanings; clues that provide students with meaning or comprehension based on the environment in which a word is found. Contrastive analysis Comparing two languages to predict where learning will be facilitated and ...

  7. Projective test - Wikipedia

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    The Animal Metaphor test consists of a series of creative and analytical prompts in which the person filling out the test is asked to create a story and then interpret its personal significance. Unlike conventional projective tests, the Animal Metaphor Test works as both a diagnostic and therapeutic battery.

  8. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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    Aspell's main improvement is that it can more accurately suggest correct alternatives for misspelled English words. [ 11 ] Due to the inability of traditional spell checkers to check words in complex inflected languages, Hungarian László Németh developed Hunspell , a spell checker that supports agglutinative languages and complex compound words.

  9. Talk:Alternative words for American - Wikipedia

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    I have lived in the USA for 24 years and I have not heard of this word before. Since not many people in the U.S. has heard this word before, nor my dictionary has an entry for it. Can the person who made up this word specify how this "word" is pronounced? I tried many variations, none sounded right. Us-Sian as in one of "us". U-Sian as in one ...