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Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional.
Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g., the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.
Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.) Notable examples are cuisines, cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. (See List of words derived from toponyms.)
A demonym (/ ˈ d ɛ m ə n ɪ m /; from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, tribe' and ὄνυμα (ónuma) 'name') or gentilic (from Latin gentilis 'of a clan, or gens') [1] is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. [2]
Texas A&M's equivalent of cheerleaders – These elected students, three seniors and two juniors, lead the student body in synchronized yells throughout all sporting events and yell practices. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 56 ] [ 118 ] While all yell leaders on the main campus have been men, a woman has served as one at the school's branch campus in Galveston ...
Texas A&M University–San Antonio plans to reach an enrollment of 25,000 students by 2025. The campus is being built in part due to a plan by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to enroll 630,000 students in college by 2015. [13] Texas A&M San Antonio opened their doors to college freshmen in 2016 with 557 freshmen that fall semester.
San Antonio River: Part of the river is the location of San Antonio's Famous River Walk. Aransas River: A short river that drains in Copano Bay. Frio River: A fairly cold river, hence the name Frio, which means "cold" in Spanish. Atascosa River: A short river that empties into the Frio River Mission River: Flows into Mission Bay: Leona River
an apartment that occupies the entire floor of a small building (San Francisco and upstate New York); used also in phrases such as railroad flat: flip-flop a type of footwear a type of electronic circuit: an about-face or U-turn (UK also: about-turn), as in politics: fluid ounce (fl. oz.) liquid measure equal to 28.41 millilitres