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) Also all y'all, comparable in meaning and register to north-English, Northern Irish and Scottish "youse, yous". yellow light as in the color at a stoplight (q.v.) or traffic lights (UK: amber) yinz, yunz, you'uns (Western Pennsylvania, especially Pittsburgh) plural you; derived from you ones. Likewise youse in Philadelphia.
The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Some words are followed by examples of misspellings:
The name has erotic connotations; it literally translates into English as 'wells of love.’ Punsch-roll: Sweden: A Swedish, small cylindrical pastry covered with green marzipan with the ends dipped in chocolate, with an interior consisting of a mix of crushed cookies, butter, and cacao, flavoured with punsch liqueur.
German – Wenn Schweine fliegen können! is identical with the English saying "when pigs fly", although the older proverb Wenn Schweine Flügel hätten, wäre alles möglich ("if pigs had wings, everything would be possible") is in more common use, often modified on the second part to something impossible, like "if pigs had wings, even your ...
Brand names and flashy cars have typically signified status among the wealthy -- but these hallmarks of status are giving way to some unexpected symbols.
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum.It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm.In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combination of yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue ...
The most common definition equates words with lemmas (the inflected or dictionary form; this includes walk, but not walks, walked or walking). Most of the time lemmas do not include proper nouns (names of people, places, companies, etc.). Another definition often used in research of vocabulary size is that of word family.
The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it; The fourth (if present) links to the related article(s) or adds a clarification note.