• Foreign Words is a novel by Greek author Vassilis Alexakis that tells the story of middle-aged writer Nicolaides and his decision to learn the African...
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    foreign words that are "Filipinized" by reforming them using Filipino rules, such as verb conjugations. Users typically use Filipino or English words...
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  • English-derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin. English words of African origin List of English words of Afrikaans origin List of South...
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    it is from another language, the word can be called a foreign word. There are many foreign words and phrases used in English such as bon vivant (French)...
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    presumably includes words such as Latin species names, scientific terminology, botanical terms, prefixed and suffixed words, jargon, foreign words of extremely...
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  • in writing foreign proper names. They do not occur in Estonian words, and are not officially part of the alphabet. Including all the foreign letters, the...
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    and laid are euphemisms for 'sexual intercourse'. Expressions or words from a foreign language may be imported for use as euphemism. For example, the French...
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    a Second/Foreign Language Slovenian Phonology Slovene Grammar Slovenian National Corpus 600 M words corpus of Slovenian FidaPLUS 200 M words corpus of...
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  • language and claims to have reduced the use of foreign words, but the reality is that many foreign words appear in North Korean dictionaries and textbooks...
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  • linguistics, anglicisation or anglicization is the practice of modifying foreign words, names, and phrases to make them easier to spell, pronounce or understand...
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  • Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms. These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms)...
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    or in compound words (e.g. поэ́тому 'therefore' = по + этому, where этому is the dative case of этот). In words that come from foreign languages in which...
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  • pangram not using any of the special letters used in Estonian only for foreign words (c, f, q, š, z, ž, w, x, y). Põdur Zagrebi tšellomängija-följetonist...
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    for Latin speakers, and the letter was initially only used to spell foreign words. This history has led to the standard modern names of the letter in...
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    information. Later on, these phonemic symbols also became used to transcribe foreign words. The first fully phonemic script was the Proto-Sinaitic script, also...
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    ⟨q⟩, ⟨v⟩, and ⟨x⟩ are not used in any native Polish words and are mostly found in foreign words (such as place names) and commercial names. In loanwords...
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    most common foreign language influences in English, where other languages have influenced or contributed words to English. Celtic words are almost absent...
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  • The words of foreign origin or loanwords illustrate those processes: calques, loanwords, the distinction between function words and content words. Note:...
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    for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia,...
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  • unorthodox readings for kanji, pop culture references, or the use of foreign words. Names with one or more of these characteristics have been described...
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    wanted to know the meaning, including technical terms, neologisms, and foreign words. "uwu". Dictionary.com Unabridged. Random House. February 12, 2020....
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    of foreign words. For the patent doctrine regarding equivalent means to practice an invention, see Doctrine of equivalents. The doctrine of foreign equivalents...
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  • more regularly, especially for frequent words and those whose foreign origin is not apparent. For example, the words rahat ('comfort') and sanat ('art') take...
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    stages.[citation needed] ⟨Ё⟩ can be used in Russian transcription of foreign words originating from languages that use the sound /ø/ or /œ/, spelled eu/ö/ő/ø...
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  • results when two seemingly contradictory words are adjoined. Redundancies sometimes take the form of foreign words whose meaning is repeated in the context:...
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    letters: The following Latin letters are also found separately alphabetized in words of non-Slovene origin: Ć (mehki č), Đ (dže), Q (ku), W (dvojni ve), X (iks)...
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    words (é, 'is' vs. e, 'and'), but the diaeresis is only used with ï and ü to show two separate vowel sounds in pronunciation. Only in foreign words may...
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    languages, the letter only exists in old names, loanwords and foreign words. (Foreign words are distinguished from loanwords by having a significantly lower...
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  • especially words of Greek origin, but some such words (such as Typ) have become so common that they are no longer perceived as foreign. It used to be...
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    Chinese morphemes, including words describing imported objects and ideas. However, direct phonetic borrowing of foreign words has gone on since ancient times...
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