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  2. One person, one language - Wikipedia

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    The “one person, one language” approach is a popular method adopted by parents attempting to raise simultaneous bilingual children. With the “one person, one language” approach, each parent consistently speaks only one of the two languages to the child.

  3. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    For example, "I" may be a pronoun or a Roman numeral; "to" may be a preposition or an infinitive marker; "time" may be a noun or a verb. Also, a single spelling can represent more than one root word. For example, "singer" may be a form of either "sing" or "singe". Different corpora may treat such difference differently.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly. If a word can be replaced by one with less potential for misunderstanding, it should be. [1] Some words have specific technical meanings in some contexts and are acceptable in those contexts, e.g. claim in law.

  5. 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

  6. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    Garden-path sentence, sentences that illustrate that humans process language one word at a time; Gradient well-formedness; Grammaticality; One-syllable article, Chinese phonological ambiguity Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den – Chinese one-syllable poem

  7. Word list - Wikipedia

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    It includes the F.F.1 list with 1,500 high-frequency words, completed by a later F.F.2 list with 1,700 mid-frequency words, and the most used syntax rules. [12] It is claimed that 70 grammatical words constitute 50% of the communicatives sentence, [13] [14] while 3,680 words make about 95~98% of coverage. [15] A list of 3,000 frequent words is ...

  8. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    This is a list of common abbreviations in the English language ... (beneath one's dignity) (borrowed from Latin) inti intifada

  9. Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists - Wikipedia

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    Language: Poets and authors listed by language are at, for example List of German-language poets (see List of poets for the list-of-lists of them). Fiction and real life: List of fictional dogs is a list of fictional creatures, whereas List of individual dogs is a list with real-life examples. Note that the lead section of each list explains ...