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An iPhone Words with Friends game in progress. The opponent has just played FIE, in the process also forming the word QI, for a score of 17 points.. The rules of the game are mostly the same as those of two-player Scrabble, with a few differences such as the arrangement of premium squares and the distribution and point values of some of the letters (see Scrabble letter distributions and point ...
Say much in few words: multis e gentibus vires: from many peoples, strength: Motto of Saskatchewan: multitudo sapientium sanitas orbis: a multitude of the wise is the health of the world: From the Vulgate, Wisdom of Solomon 6:24. Motto of the University of Victoria. multum in parvo: much in little: Conciseness.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
For words to appear here, they must appear in their own entry in a dictionary; words that occur only as part of a longer phrase are not included. Proper nouns are not included in the list. There are, in addition, many place names and personal names, mostly originating from Arabic-speaking countries, Albania, or China, that have a Q without a U.
After palatal consonants (/ʃ tʃ ʒ dʒ/), whether original or resulting from the merger of /j/ and the preceding consonant, in both stressed and unstressed syllables; e.g. /dʒ/: junior, Julius, Jupiter, cæsura, educator, spatula, fistula; After the following consonants when they precede u in an initial, final, or stressed syllable:
In words, mostly of Latin origin, where ä and u are separated by a syllable boundary, it represents /ɛ.ʊ/, e.g. Matthäus (a German form for Matthew). aw is used in English in ways that parallel English au , though it appears more often at the end of a word. In Cornish, it represents /aʊ/ or /æʊ/.
OTCWL2016, [d] a minor update in 2016, added over 1,000 nine-letter words. The 2018 update NWL2018 [e] added over 3,000 words, including additions to OSPD6 and MWCD, and ten-letter words from COD2. It was produced by NASPA in collaboration with Merriam-Webster, and under its own copyright for the first time.
This is a list of English words inherited and derived directly from the Old English stage of the language. This list also includes neologisms formed from Old English roots and/or particles in later forms of English, and words borrowed into other languages (e.g. French, Anglo-French, etc.) then borrowed back into English (e.g. bateau, chiffon, gourmet, nordic, etc.).