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The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English word families [1] which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The target readership is English as a second or foreign language students intending to enter English-medium higher education , and teachers of such students.
Because of the large number of universities and colleges in the United States, and some cases because of their lengthy formal names, it is common to abbreviate their names in everyday usage. The type of institution, such as "University" or "College," may be dropped, or some component of it abbreviated, such as "Tech" in place of "Institute of ...
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:
New College ranked 504th on Research.com’s list of colleges across the country. According to the site’s data, New College has an acceptance rate of 75%, an average SAT score of 1230 and an ...
Freshman class artwork, from East Texas State Normal College's 1920 Locust yearbook. A freshman, fresher, first year, or colloquially frosh, [1] is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.
A dean's list is an academic award, or distinction, used to recognize the highest level scholarship demonstrated by students in a college or university.This system is most often used in North America, [1] [2] though institutions in Europe, [3] Asia, [4] and Australia [5] may also employ similar measures.
The spelling draught reflects the older pronunciation, / d r ɑː x t /. Draft emerged in the 16th century to reflect the change in pronunciation. [146] [147] dyke: dike: The spelling with "i" is sometimes found in the UK, but the "y" spelling is rare in the US, where the y distinguishes dike in this sense from dyke, a slur term for a lesbian ...