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  2. ASLwrite - Wikipedia

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    The general principle is to capture a single ASL word per segment, from left to right, registering non-manual feature(s), location(s), handshape(s), movement(s) and general orientation. It imagines the writer/speaker is looking down at their hands or viewing words from the profile such that words can be made either as if seen from straight-on ...

  3. Dictionary of American Regional English - Wikipedia

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    The digital DARE also offers features based on the original fieldwork survey: Users can click on a state on the DARE map, or select from any of 41 regions in a pull-down menu (e.g., Appalachians, Desert Southwest, Gulf States, North Central, South Atlantic), to get to a link to "View all entries for [that state or region]." Because language ...

  4. List of catchphrases in American and British mass media

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    This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.

  5. Classifier constructions in sign languages - Wikipedia

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    As it became more like a sign, it could also be used with non-animate referents, like apples or boxes. As a sign, the former classifier construction now conforms to the usual constraints of a word, such as consisting of one syllable. [44] The resulting sign must not be a simple sum of its combined parts, but can have a different meaning ...

  6. Hangman (game) - Wikipedia

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    Example game in which the letters A and N but not the whole word HANGMAN were guessed – incorrect guesses are noted at the bottom Hangman is a guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word , phrase , or sentence and the other(s) tries to guess it by suggesting letters or numbers within a certain number of guesses.

  7. Plains Indian Sign Language - Wikipedia

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    Plains Sign Language's antecedents, if any, are unknown due to a lack of written records. However, the earliest records of contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Gulf Coast region in what is now Texas and northern Mexico note a fully formed sign language already in use by the time of the Europeans' arrival there. [10]

  8. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 October 4

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    The second word is الله, allāh, which means 'God'. When this word follows one that ends in a vowel, the initial 'a-' disappears in pronunciation. Thus, āya+allāh becomes āyatu+llāh, or even āyatullāh, meaning 'the sign of God'. In some pronunciations, especially in standard Persian, the short '-u-' in the middle sounds like an '-o-'.

  9. Taboo (game) - Wikipedia

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    Taboo is a word, guessing, and party game published by Parker Brothers in 1989 (subsequently purchased by Hasbro). [1] The objective of the game is for a player to have their partners guess the word on the player's card without using the word itself or five additional words listed on the card.