dialects prefer usage of a double vowel. A diaeresis has sometimes been used (Mäori) in place of a macron where the technical capacity to apply a macron diacritic...

The Canons Regular of St. Augustine are Catholic priests who live in community under a rule (Latin: regula and κανών, kanon, in Greek) and are generally...

became a title given to the rebels as a whole around the 3rd–5th century AD, hence the Septuagint naming the works as books of the Maccabees. This usage of...

from 1929, though it incorporates certain modifications. Both canon law, specifically Canon 1397 §2, and articles 381 to 385 of the Vatican’s adapted penal...

It is used in a number of English terms of Spanish origin, such as jalapeño, piña colada, piñata, and El Niño. The Spanish word cañón, however, became...

The Canon de 24 C modèle 1864 was a cast iron rifled breech loader built-up gun used by the French Navy and as coastal artillery. The Dutch army used...

is a classical Middle Indo-Aryan language on the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist Pāli Canon or Tipiṭaka...

Bryan A. Garner in Garner's Modern English Usage, that "eg" and "ie" style versus "e.g." and "i.e." style are two poles of British versus American usage are...

referred to as canon. Manuscripts must satisfy certain linguistic, chronological and cultural criteria to be incorporated into the canon: they must not...

in addition to hermits who are members of religious institutes, the Canon law (canon 603) recognizes also diocesan hermits under the direction of their...

"Pierrier", "Stock Fowler", and "Patterero" in English;: 368–369  "Pierrier à boîte" in French; "Berço" in Portuguese; "Verso" in Spanish; "Prangi" in Turkish;: 143 ...

reissued. The band is seemingly reluctant to consider the album as a part of its canon; in later interviews, Schneider described the first three Kraftwerk...

Millet, Olivier (2012). "Les décrétales et le droit canon dans le Quart Livre" [Decretals and canon law in the Quart Livr]. Langue et sens du Quart Livre...

that the tactus has changed from a short to a doubled value. Certain composers delighted in creating mensuration canons, "puzzle" compositions that were...

with a horizontal resolution of around 5000 pixels, aimed at non-television computer monitor usage 10K resolution – digital video formats with a horizontal...

feet long (only a few organs in the world have this low of a pitch) a or à (Fr.) at, to, by, for, in à la (Fr.) in the style of... a battuta Return to...

year he agreed to become an honorary canon of St John Lateran, the cathedral of Rome. A fan of football, Macron is a supporter of French club Olympique...

this usage spread around the world. Contracted "Dr" or "Dr.", it is used as a designation for a person who has obtained a doctorate (commonly a PhD)....

emulate them in metal or other materials. This original usage survives in the shofar (Hebrew: שופר), a ram's horn, which plays an important role in Jewish...

Moroccan Jews; 'Spanyol' by some others." That does not reflect the historical usage. In the Judaeo-Spanish press of the 19th and 20th centuries the native authors...

à 1,053095; ce qui a donné pour l'instant du passage au périhélie, sept.29j,10239, temps moyen compté de minuit à Paris. Les valeurs précédentes de a...

Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with commentary on lexicographers and linguists...

Augustinian canon Orrm wrote the Ormulum, one of the oldest surviving texts in Middle English. Contact with Old Norse aided the development of English from a synthetic...

the Blind, Jerusalem; Dr. Max Geffner, of the Blindeninstitut of Vienna; Canon C. F. Waudby, of the National Institute for the Blind, Great Britain; Leopold...

generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of eight strings. A variety of string...

*’Ašerātā as a "double feminization." Reuven Chaim Klein argues that w'šrth means "and His temple/shrine/site," following an obscure usage of the Hebrew...

publisher), published as an appendix to a book of two trigonometric tables (Canon mathematicus, seu ad triangula, the "canon" referred to by the title of his...

audience appeals: logos, pathos, and ethos. The five canons of rhetoric, or phases of developing a persuasive speech, were first codified in classical...

includes A Tomb for Boris Davidovich in his list of canonical works of the period he names the Chaotic Age (1900–present) in The Western Canon.[citation...

first stone" and "go, and sin no more" have found their way into common usage. The English idiomatic phrase to "cast the first stone" is derived from...