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For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.
Ein schöner Tag (English: A beautiful day) is the first single from Schiller's 2001 album Weltreise with vocals by German singer Isgaard and spoken word passages by German actress and voice actress Franziska Pigulla (* 6 May 1965), who became famous in the German-speaking countries as a narrator of countless documentaries and as the voice of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully from The X-Files.
"Beautiful Day" is played at a tempo of 136 beats per minute in a 4 4 time signature. [8] The song opens with a reverberating electric piano playing over a string synthesiser, introducing the chord progression of A–Bm 7 –D–G–D 9 –A. [9] This progression continues throughout the verses and chorus, the changes not always one to a bar. [9]
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Generally, words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated, or pretentious. However, there are exceptions: weep , groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry , brush and rock (from French).
Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words popularized from Black Twitter that have helped shape the internet. ... For example, "Oh lawd, my day was stressful." Amy Sussman // Getty Images for ...
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.
Dirty words for body parts (p*ssy, c*ck, d*ck, t*ts, etc.) are also worth discussing; there’s nothing inherently wrong with any of them, but some people have strong reactions to one over another ...