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  2. World - Wikipedia

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    The English word world comes from the Old English weorold.The Old English is a reflex of the Common Germanic * weraldiz, a compound of weraz 'man' and aldiz 'age', thus literally meaning roughly 'age of man'; [2] this word led to Old Frisian warld, Old Saxon werold, Old Dutch werolt, Old High German weralt, and Old Norse verǫld.

  3. List of short place names - Wikipedia

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    U, a place in Panama [citation needed] U, a municipality on Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia; Ú, a place in Madagascar [citation needed] U, a place in Vietnam [citation needed] Ü, a geographic division and a historical region in Tibet, China; W, a national park in Niger and Benin. Y, a commune in the department of Somme, France

  4. List of long place names - Wikipedia

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    Believed to be the longest official one-word place name in the United States. Twee­buffels­met­een­skoot­morsdood­geskiet­fontein (44 letters) Farm in the North West province of South Africa: Afrikaans "The spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot". Notes: The longest one-word place name in Africa.

  5. Lists of places - Wikipedia

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    List of places named for Israel Putnam; List of places named after Stalin; List of places named after Tito; List of places named after Queen Victoria; List of places named for George Washington; List of places named after peace; List of populated places named after populated places; List of non-US places that have a US place named after them

  6. Everything - Wikipedia

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    Everything, every-thing, or every thing, is all that exists; it is an antithesis of nothing, or its complement. It is the totality of things relevant to some subject matter . Without expressed or implied limits , it may refer to anything .

  7. The One Beautiful Word the World Almost Ruined - AOL

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    Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and short-story collections, including We Loved It All (2024) and A Children’s Bible, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in ...

  8. List of locations in the world with an English name - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of place names originally used in England and then later applied to other places throughout the world via English settlers and explorers. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .

  9. Earth - Wikipedia

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    The Modern English word Earth developed, via Middle English, from an Old English noun most often spelled eorðe. [25] It has cognates in every Germanic language, and their ancestral root has been reconstructed as *erþō.