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Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw). Many of these words are part of English core vocabulary, such as egg or knife. There are hundreds of such ...
Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.
a school crossing guard who uses a circular stop sign lolly * 1. lollipop /ice lolly (US: popsicle); (q.v.) 2. (slang) money loo toilet (usually the room, not just the plumbing device) (US: bathroom in a home, restroom in a public place; occasionally washroom in the north, borrowed from Canadian usage) lorry
A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion words). [1]
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Oxford University Press: 1895 2nd (20 vols., ISBN 0-19-861186-2) 1989 21,730 291,500 British: IPA: Random House Webster's: Random House: 1966 2nd (rev., ISBN 978-0375425998) 2002 2,256 315,000 American: Diacritical: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED) Oxford University Press: 1933 6th (2 vol., ISBN ...
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I am glad to sit in the back row, for I had rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty." [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 268 ] — Alben W. Barkley , vice-president of the United States (30 April 1956), alluding to Psalms 84:10 [ 269 ] just before dying of a heart attack while giving keynote address at the 1956 Washington ...
Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat.With a population of 429,954, it is Minnesota's most populous city as of the 2020 census.