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Armenian lullabies of the modern era, from the Urban Folk genre, include Ari, Im Sokhak (Come, My Nightingale), Anush Knik (Sweet Sleep), and Nazei Oror (Lullaby of Naze), the latter telling of the horrors of the Armenian genocide: The caravan passed With a burden of tears And in the black desert Fell to its knees Exhausted Ah, with the pain of ...
As a crossword blogger, I realized there was only one way to appropriately celebrate being on the shore of Lake ERIE in ERIE, Pennsylvania. I ate an Oreo. Eating an Oreo on the shore of Lake Erie
It is often suggested that the Japanese word arigatō derives from the Portuguese obrigado, both of which mean "Thank you", but evidence indicates arigatō has a purely Japanese origin, [22] so these two words are false cognates. Arigatō is an "u"-sound change of arigataku. [23]
Japanese wordplay relies on the nuances of the Japanese language and Japanese script for humorous effect, functioning somewhat like a cross between a pun and a spoonerism. Double entendres have a rich history in Japanese entertainment (such as in kakekotoba ) [ 1 ] due to the language's large number of homographs (different meanings for a given ...
Find answers to the latest online sudoku and crossword puzzles that were published in USA TODAY Network's local newspapers. Puzzle solutions for Friday, Dec. 20, 2024 Skip to main content
Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
On the second day of MLB’s annual winter meetings on Tuesday, Sasaki’s agent, Joel Wolfe of Wasserman Media Group, began to detail such factors during a media scrum that turned into an ...