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Stradbroke (/ ˈ s t r æ d b r ʊ k / STRAD-brook) [2] is an English village in the Mid Suffolk district of the county of Suffolk. The census of 2011 gave the parish a population of 1,408, with an estimate of 1,513 in 2018.
For example, in the Vasiliy Shukshin's story "Мой зять украл машину дров" (My son-in-law stole a carful of firewood) the word for what is spelled "што" (as it is pronounced in contemporary Russian, so ), rather than the expected "что". The character is a delivery driver in Siberia and the eye dialect emphasizes his ...
For example, a constant left hypertropia exists when a person's left eye is always aimed higher than the right. A person with an intermittent right esotropia has a right eye that occasionally drifts toward the person's nose, but at other times is able to align with the gaze of the left eye.
French OVNI (Objet Volant Non Identifié) calques English UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) In some dialects of French, the English term "weekend" becomes la fin de semaine ("the end of week"), a calque, but in some it is left untranslated as le week-end, a loanword. French cor anglais (literally English horn) is a near-calque of English French ...
American soldiers could ferret out German infiltrators during their time in the Western Front. German spies were taught British English, which was different from American English. For example, Britons used the word lorry rather than the American term truck. American soldiers used such words as a shibboleth to distinguish Nazi spies.
Americans paid an estimated $842 million in fees to cover advance loan refunds or refund anticipation checks last year.
A place where tickets are sold, in this example, for movies. A term to describe how well a film is doing. "The film is a hit at the box office." [citation needed] brass: A metal alloy (used for or in the manufacture of e.g. buttons, insignia and a family of musical instruments)
A Canadian woman allegedly attempted to smuggle 22 pounds of methamphetamine wrapped as Christmas presents through a New Zealand airport on Sunday, Dec. 8.