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  2. History of English grammars - Wikipedia

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    Robert Lowth: A short introduction to English grammar: with critical notes. [36] 1763. John Ash: Grammatical institutes: or, An easy introduction to Dr. Lowth's English grammar. [37] 1765. William Ward: An Essay on English Grammar. [38] 1766. Samuel Johnson: A dictionary of the English Language...: to which is prefixed, a Grammar of the English ...

  3. Bovril - Wikipedia

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    Bovril is a thick and salty meat extract paste, similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston. It is sold in a distinctive bulbous jar and as cubes and granules. Its appearance is similar to the British Marmite and its Australian equivalent Vegemite. Bovril is owned and distributed by Unilever UK.

  4. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 December 16

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    The article also claims, unsourced, that the meat has been marketed euphemistically as "cheval meat", cheval being the French word for "horse". By the way, don't be distracted in your research by results for events such as the Horse Meat Disco , which do not, I am reliably informed, sell horse meat, neither as Austrian leberkäse nor as Belgian ...

  5. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Essentials of English Grammar: 25th impression, 1987. London: Routledge. p. 400. ISBN 0-415-10440-8. Jonson, Ben (1756). "The English grammar: Made by Ben Jonson for the benefit of all strangers, out of his observation of the English language now spoken and in use". The Works of Ben Jonson: Volume 7. London: D. Midwinter et al. Kolln, Martha J ...

  6. History of English - Wikipedia

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    The English language changed enormously during the Middle English period, in vocabulary, in pronunciation, and in grammar. While Old English is a heavily inflected language , the use of grammatical endings diminished in Middle English . Grammar distinctions were lost as many noun and adjective endings were levelled to -e.

  7. Horse meat - Wikipedia

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    Horse meat is also sometimes found on menus for yakiniku (a type of barbecue), where it is called baniku (馬肉, lit. ' horse meat ') or bagushi (馬串, "skewered horse"); thin slices of raw horse meat are sometimes served wrapped in a shiso leaf. Kumamoto, Nagano, and Ōita are famous for basashi, and it is common in the Tōhoku region, as ...

  8. Meat horse - Wikipedia

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    The notion of "meat horse" is a French specificity: [1] this term designates a livestock animal, the horse raised for the production of meat.Rural historian Marcel Mavré analyzes it as a degradation of the draft horse, the meat horse being a direct descendant of the draft horse, which is a working animal. [2]

  9. Old English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected.As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological system similar to that of the Proto-Germanic reconstruction, retaining many of the inflections thought to have been common in Proto-Indo-European and also including constructions characteristic of the Germanic daughter languages such as ...