• The Word as Law is the second studio album by American post-metal band Neurosis. It was released in 1990 through Lookout! Records, originally on LP only...
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    Zipf's law, the second-place word "of" accounts for slightly over 3.5% of words (36,411 occurrences), followed by "and" (28,852). It is often used in the following...
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  • Nigger (redirect from The N Word)
    African-American English. The origin of the word lies with the Latin adjective niger ([ˈnɪɡɛr]), meaning "black". It was initially seen as a relatively neutral...
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  • The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration...
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    Statute (redirect from Statutory law)
    Criminal Court. Statute is also another word for law. The term was adapted from England in about the 18th century. In the autonomous communities of Spain, an...
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  • become unclear as word processing software has gained features such as ligature support added to the 2010 version of Microsoft Word. Common word processor...
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    equality, fairness, and justice. The word law, attested in Old English as lagu, comes from the Old Norse word lǫg. The singular form lag meant 'something...
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  • in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary indicates that the origin of the word by-law is from the English word bilawe, probably...
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  • "codeword" , "code word", "codewords", or "code words" on Wikipedia. Brevity code Ten-code, brevity codes in voice communication, particularly by law enforcement...
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  • The identity of the longest word in English depends on the definition of "word" and of length. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots...
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    Profanity (redirect from Swear word)
    with the word, as opposed to literal denotation. The connotative function of profanity allows the denotative meaning to shift more easily, causing the word...
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    Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets...
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  • that substance. The second is a statement about the word "cheese" as a signifier: it mentions the word without using it to refer to anything other than...
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    Christianity, the Logos (Greek: Λόγος, lit. 'word, discourse, or reason') is a name or title of Jesus Christ, seen as the pre-existent second person of the Trinity...
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  • are otherwise protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Federal obscenity law in the U.S. is unusual in that there is no uniform national...
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  • The letter of the law and the spirit of the law are two possible ways to regard rules or laws. To obey the letter of the law is to follow the literal...
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  • and 12 syllables, and is one of the longest words in the English language. It has been cited as the longest word in the English language (excluding coined...
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  • WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of...
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  • The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) is a private, Catholic university with its main campus in San Antonio and Alamo Heights, Texas. Founded in 1881...
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    techniques for problem-solving, learning, and discovery. The accent of the English word is on the second syllable, following Latin rules of accent, which...
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    the brevity law (also called Zipf's law of abbreviation) is a linguistic law that qualitatively states that the more frequently a word is used, the shorter...
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    ('male witch'). The earliest recorded use of the word "witch" is in the Laws of Ælfred, which date to about 890: In the homilies of the Old English grammarian...
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  • stupid. The word is sometimes censored and referred to as the euphemistic "r‑word" or "r‑slur". Retard was previously used as a medical term. The verb "to...
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  • a word in the English language most commonly used in reference to flatulence that can be used as a noun or a verb. The immediate roots are in the Middle...
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    The word Mormon most colloquially denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism in restorationist Christianity. Mormon also...
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    Sin (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    "a word, deed, or desire in opposition to the eternal law of God." Thus, sin requires redemption, a metaphor alluding to atonement, in which the death...
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    during debates on the drug's use. The word was codified into law and became part of common American English with the passing of the Marihuana Tax Act...
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    The Society of the Divine Word (Latin: Societas Verbi Divini), abbreviated SVD and popularly called the Verbites or the Divine Word Missionaries, and...
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  • fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom or phrase. An example for a word sense is...
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  • Word of mouth is the passing of information from person to person using oral communication, which could be as simple as telling someone the time of day...
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