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Sometimes you can combine several diminutive suffixes to make several degrees of diminution: пирог (pirog, a pie) becomes пирожок (pirozhok, a small pie, or an affectionate name), which then may become пирожочек (pirozhochek, a very small pie, or an affectionate name).
Refers to a very small amount of something, similar to "bietjie" (a little bit) khaki – derogatory term for an English person. From the colour worn by British troops, as well as the traditional clothes worn by Boere (Afrikaans speaking white farmers). kêrels – police (original Afrikaans meaning: guys, chaps). "The kêrels are coming, watch ...
Salutation in letter Oral address King: HM The King: Your Majesty: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Sir" (or the archaic "Sire") Queen: HM The Queen: Your Majesty, and thereafter as "Ma'am" (to rhyme with "jam") [4] [5] Prince of Wales: HRH The Prince of Wales HRH The Duke of Rothesay (in Scotland) Your Royal Highness: Your Royal Highness, and ...
Unicode provides separate code-points for the Old Cyrillic and civil script forms of this letter. A number of Old Cyrillic fonts developed before the publication of Unicode 5.1 placed iotated A (Ꙗ/ꙗ) at the code points for Ya (Я/я) instead of the Private Use Area, [4] but since Unicode 5.1, iotated A has been encoded separately from Ya.
Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika with call sign UKTY. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. In the case of states such as Liberia or Panama, which are flags of convenience for ship registration, call signs for larger vessels consist of the national prefix plus three letters (for example, 3LXY, and sometimes followed by a number, e.g. 3LXY2).
Daryl Watts scored her second goal of the game 51 seconds into overtime to give the Toronto Sceptres a 3-2 victory over the Ottawa Charge on Sunday. Gabbie Hughes gave the Charge a 1-0 lead with a ...
Big Tech on deck. S&P 500 companies have had a strong start to earnings season. The index is expected to grow earnings by 12.7% compared to the year prior in the fourth quarter, per FactSet data.
The Very Reverend (abbreviation The Very Rev.), oral address Mr./Madam Dean or Mr./Madam Provost, as appropriate, or Very Reverend Sir/Madam – Anglican deans and provosts of cathedrals, the deans of Westminster Abbey and St George's Chapel, Windsor, and, for historical reasons, a few parish priests, such as the Dean of Bocking.