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  2. Torres Strait Creole - Wikipedia

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    In 2007 a translation of the Bible was published, called the Holi Baibul, which was the first complete translation of the Bible into any Indigenous language within Australia. [ 2 ] Most Torres Strait Islander people speak Yumplatok in addition to their local languages, and a 2014 study suggests that the numbers of people speaking Kriol are ...

  3. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words that are thought to be commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and professional grammarians defining the norms of Standard English.

  4. Shtick - Wikipedia

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    A shtick is a comic theme or gimmick.The word entered the English language from the Yiddish shtik (שטיק), related to German Stück, Polish sztuka, Cyrillic штука (all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją), all meaning "piece", "thing" or "theatre play"; Theaterstück is the German word for play (and is a synonym of Schauspiel, literally "viewing play" in contrast to Singspiel).

  5. Slim (name) - Wikipedia

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    Slim (Arabic: سليم, romanized: Slīm), is an Arabic name which can be either a given name or a surname. It is a variant of Salim or Selim. It is also an English-language surname. Notable people with the given name or surname include: Slim Amamou (born 1977), Tunisian government minister; Slim Belkhodja (born 1962), Tunisian chess Grandmaster

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  7. Transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Most transliteration systems are one-to-one, so a reader who knows the system can reconstruct the original spelling. Transliteration, which adapts written form without altering the pronunciation when spoken out, is opposed to letter transcription , which is a letter by letter conversion of one language into another writing system .

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  9. Quotation marks in English - Wikipedia

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    Straight single and double quotation marks are used in most programming languages to delimit strings or literal characters, collectively known as string literals. In some languages (e.g. Pascal ) only one type is allowed, in some (e.g. C and its derivatives) both are used with different meanings and in others (e.g. Python ) both are used ...