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  2. Rally (tennis) - Wikipedia

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    A rally in tennis is a collective name given to a sequence of back and forth shots between players, within a point.A rally starts with the serve and the return of the serve, followed by continuous return shots until a point is scored which ends the rally.

  3. English plurals - Wikipedia

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    The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.

  4. Back and Forth - Wikipedia

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    Back-and-forth method, a method of showing isomorphism between countably infinite structures satisfying specified conditions Back and Forth (software) , a shareware program for DOS Topics referred to by the same term

  5. Reduplication - Wikipedia

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    she chunt comes üse our Chrischtboum Christmas tree cho come schmücke. adorn Si chunt üse Chrischtboum cho schmücke. she comes our {Christmas tree} come adorn She comes to adorn our Christmas tree. Si she lat lets ne him nid not la let schlafe. sleep Si lat ne nid la schlafe. she lets him not let sleep She doesn't let him sleep. In some Salishan languages, reduplication can mark both ...

  6. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    Back-formation is either the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new "word") by removing actual or supposed affixes, or a neologism formed by such a process. Back-formations are shortened words created from longer words, thus back-formations may be viewed as a sub-type of clipping .

  7. Inflection - Wikipedia

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    Inflection of the Scottish Gaelic lexeme for 'dog', which is cù for singular, chù for dual with the number dà ('two'), and coin for plural. In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation [1] in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and ...

  8. Singulative number - Wikipedia

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    Welsh has two systems of grammatical number, singular–plural and collective–singulative. Since the loss of the noun inflection system of earlier Celtic, plurals have become unpredictable and can be formed in several ways: by adding a suffix to the end of the word (most commonly -au), as in tad "father" and tadau "fathers", through vowel affection, as in bachgen "boy" and bechgyn "boys", or ...

  9. Et cetera - Wikipedia

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    The &c (et ceterarum, "Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland and another") shows that Oliver Cromwell did not renounce the English claims on France. Et cetera (English: / ɛ t ˈ s ɛ t ə r ə, ɛ k-/, Latin: [ɛt ˈkeːtɛra]), abbreviated to etc., et cet., &c. or &c, [1] [2] is a Latin expression that is used in English to mean "and other things", or "and so forth".