Name-dropping (or name-checking) is the practice of naming or alluding to important people or institutions in order to indicate one's association with...
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Initial dropping R dropping Pronoun dropping Y dropping Yod-dropping Dropping the F-bomb, swearing Name-dropping, mentioning names Automatic dropping device...
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/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. H-dropping or aitch-dropping is the deletion of the voiceless glottal fricative or "H-sound"...
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people (or other prey) that walk beneath them by dropping onto their heads from above. The origin of the drop bear myth is unknown. It has been attributed...
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A domain name drop list is a list containing the expired domain names that could be deleted from the domain name registry in the near future. These lists...
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Census. Retrieved August 22, 2016. Parkyn, John (February 13, 2000). "Name Dropping". Sun Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Retrieved March 28, 2013....
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Name-Dropping: Harold Nicolson" pp. 737–744 from The Hudson Review, Volume 21, Issue #4, Winter 1968–1969 p. 739. Young, Vernon "The Fine Art Of Name-Dropping:...
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she changed her name, dropping the surname of her birth father Ray, who had left home when she was four, and taking the last name of her mother's second...
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November 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2018. Parkyn, John (3 February 2002). "Name Dropping". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved...
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Independent Film Festival - List of awards 2012". Retrieved August 29, 2014. "Name Dropping with Jason Stuart... Jon Polito". Newnownext.com. September 29, 2010...
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right before the national elections, she chose to use "Atishi" as her name, dropping her surname from daily use, since she wanted people to focus on her...
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Householder, Mike (May 15, 2009). "Hollywood, universities share benefits of name-dropping". USA Today. Retrieved October 25, 2009. Abrams, Natalie (March 1, 2010)...
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Mongolian People's Party (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
original name, dropping the word "revolutionary". This caused a faction to split away and form a new party to retain the long-standing name; the two parties...
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on "Player's Anthem", the album's highest charting single. Frequent name dropping from mentor The Notorious B.I.G. throughout Cease's career helped keep...
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Pronunciation of English ⟨ng⟩ (redirect from G dropping)
American English. G-dropping is a linguistic phenomenon that has been studied by sociolinguists since the 1950s. The origin of G-dropping has been studied...
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Retrieved November 15, 2017. Brennan, Patricia (August 27, 2006). "'Name'-Dropping With Greg Garcia For 'Earl' Creator, It's About the Folks He Knows --...
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"Monster" by Kanye West. She gained wider media attention after being name-dropped in the song "Miss Me" by Drake the same year, leading to a number of...
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nominalism" in that the names express the new and fashionable. This name-dropping demonstrates how commercialism has created and named new objects and experiences...
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movement. The club operated a set of "House rules", which were: No name-dropping, no star fucking. No hooting, hollering, shouting or other loud behaviour...
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researchers have reported mixed or inconclusive findings. Drop sets and the technique also go by the names breakdowns, burnouts, descending sets, triple-drops...
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been filled, the router begins discarding all additional datagrams, thus dropping the tail of the sequence of packets. The loss of packets causes the TCP...
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Born John Graham McCrorey, he was so thrifty he legally changed his name, dropping the e, because he did not want to pay the cost of the extra initial...
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and the 2000s. "Killing in the Name" dropped to number two, falling 38 places to number 40 the week after, and dropping out of the top 75 the following...
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section. Note that the lakes are listed alphabetically by their main name, dropping any leading "lake", "lac", "lac la", "upper/lower", "north/south". For...
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Antaeotricha leucillana (redirect from Pale gray bird-dropping moth)
Antaeotricha leucillana, the pale gray bird-dropping moth, is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1854...
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Surname (redirect from Family name etymology)
family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to...
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for MCA". Variety. Retrieved 2024-01-21. Bates, James (1996-12-10). "Name Dropping : Parent Firm Won't Be 'MCA' Anymore". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved...
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Foot drop is a gait abnormality in which the dropping of the forefoot happens due to weakness, irritation or damage to the deep fibular nerve (deep peroneal)...
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professional, is well known in Sydney social circles. Kate Fitzpatrick (2004). Name dropping : an incomplete memoir. Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins. ISBN 0-7322-7468-0...
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