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  2. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  3. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    The original series initially consisted of 3 million records (Persian: فیش (French: fiche) or برگه "barge") (up to 100 meanings/records for each word or proper noun) until Dehkhoda's death in March 1956, and currently contains 343,466 entries that, according to the latest digital release of the dictionary by Tehran University Press ...

  4. Ynet - Wikipedia

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    Ynetnews is the English language website associated with Yedioth Ahronoth, and the Hebrew Ynet. Ynetnews was established in February 2005 in Tel Aviv , with a staff of nine people. According to Gadi Taub of Hebrew University of Jerusalem , the launch of Ynetnews was a major event in English-language media in Israel.

  5. Yiddish words used in English - Wikipedia

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    The portmanteau word Yinglish is first recorded in 1942. [7] Similar colloquial portmanteau words for Yiddish influenced English include: Yidlish (recorded from 1967), Yiddiglish (1980), and Yenglish (2000). [7] A number of other terms have been promulgated, such as Engdish and Engliddish, but these have not enjoyed widespread adoption. [8]

  6. Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Langenscheidt dictionaries in various languages A multi-volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini Dictionary definition entries. A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions ...

  7. Wiktionary - Wikipedia

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    Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

  8. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of English-language idioms. List of 19th-century English language idioms; List of kennings; List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names; List of Newspeak words; Longest word in English

  9. Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources - Wikipedia

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    Relatively few words, meanings, and spellings are deliberately coined on the record and then widely adopted into English, such as if a chemist invents a chemical and names it. Instead, most words, meanings, and spellings evolve with little notice, often rejected as mistakes before repetition and acceptance.