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Nevertheless, the area around Godalming has been described as "one of the most religiously dominated landscapes in England" [6] and is and was a deeply pagan place. [7] On a hill just south of Godalming town there was once a religious site dedicated to the war god Tiw at Tuesley (Old English Tīws leah) meaning "Tiw's Clearing". [8]
Places in the ancient Godalming hundred of Surrey (with their probable meanings) include: Alfold ("old enclosure") Amberley (Imberlēah meaning "riverside clearing") Artington (from heorotingdon meaning "hill of the people of the sacred hart" [1] Bagmoor (possibly from the personal name Bacca + Moor, or perhaps meaning "badger's moor")
Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel letter. [30] Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels.
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Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).
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"A picture is worth a thousand words" is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas [1] can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a mere verbal description.