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  2. Doublet (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Doublets may also develop contrasting meanings, such as the terms host and guest, which come from the same PIE word * gʰóstis and already existed as a doublet in Latin, and then Old French, [2] before being borrowed into English. Doublets also vary with respect to how far their forms have diverged.

  3. Category:Indian feminine given names - Wikipedia

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  4. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.

  5. Romance linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Romance languages have a number of shared features across all languages: Romance languages are moderately inflecting, i.e. there is a moderately complex system of affixes (primarily suffixes) that are attached to word roots to convey grammatical information such as number, gender, person, tense, etc. Verbs have much more inflection than nouns.

  6. Gender in English - Wikipedia

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    Many words in modern English refer specifically to people or animals of a particular sex. [28] An example of an English word that has retained gender-specific spellings is the noun-form of blond/blonde, with the former being masculine and the latter being feminine. This distinction is retained primarily in British English.

  7. Wren & Martin - Wikipedia

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    Wren & Martin refers to a single book High School English Grammar and Composition or collectively, a series of English grammar textbooks written jointly by P. C. Wren and H. Martin. [1] Written primarily for the children of British officers residing in India , these books were widely adopted by Indian and Pakistani schools in the post-colonial ...

  8. South Asian English - Wikipedia

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    South Asian English is the English accent of many modern-day South Asian countries, inherited from British English dialect. Also known as Anglo-Indian English during the British Raj , the English language was introduced to the Indian subcontinent in the early 17th century and reinforced by the long rule of the British Empire .

  9. India (given name) - Wikipedia

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    India is a feminine given name derived from the name of the country India, which itself takes its name from the Indus River. [1] The name was used for India Wilkes, a character in the novel and film Gone with the Wind. [2] Its use for girls in England began during the British rule in India during the 19th century.