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This list does not include place names in the United Kingdom or the United States, or places following spelling conventions of non-English languages. For UK place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United Kingdom. For US place names, see List of irregularly spelled places in the United States. This list includes territories of ...
cab Cabernet Sauvignon cabriolet caff (UK slang) café cal calorie (in combination, especially "lo-cal") Cal or Cali California Calcutta cam camera camouflage camo camouflage Can Canada or Canadian (in combination)
and doesn't predate "Candle". handfast: contract, pledge handfast leech physician leech The meaning of the small bloodsucking creature coexisted with the meaning of physician. The former is still used today. lich corpse lich liss relief liss reave: rob reave Today found mostly in "Reaver", meaning robber or highwayman. rime: number rime ruth ...
British English meanings Meanings common to British and American English American English meanings gagging (especially as in gagging for it) desperate, especially for sex (colloquial) choking; fighting the urge to vomit ("that was so disgusting, I was gagging") gallon: 4.54609 litres (about 6/5 of US gallon) 3.78541 liters (about 5/6 of UK gallon)
&name; where name is the case-sensitive name of the entity. The semicolon is required. Because numbers are harder for humans to remember than names, character entity references are most often written by humans, while numeric character references are most often produced by computer programs. [1]
can’t: cannot cap’n (informal) captain ’cause (informal) because cuz (informal) because ’cept (informal) except c’mon: come on could’ve: could have couldn’t: could not couldn’t’ve: could not have cuppa: cup of daren’t: dare not / dared not daresn’t: dare not dasn’t: dare not didn’t: did not doesn't: does not don’t ...
This category is for masculine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language masculine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
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