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  2. National Novel Writing Month - Wikipedia

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    To win NaNoWriMo, participants must write an average of 1,667 words per day (69 per hour, 1.2 per minute) in November to reach the goal of 50,000 words written toward a novel. Organizers of the event say that the aim is to get people to start writing, using the deadline as an incentive to get the story going and to put words to paper.

  3. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art" referred to in the original aphorism was the craft of medicine, which took a lifetime ...

  4. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    [not verified in body] [4] [page range too broad] English borrowed many words from Old Norse, the North Germanic language of the Vikings, [5] and later from Norman French, the Romance language of the Normans, which descends from Latin. Estimates of native words derived from Old English range up to 33%, [6] with the rest made up of outside ...

  5. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English - Wikipedia

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  6. Academic Writing Month - Wikipedia

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    You have to decide on a goal where you count either words, hours or projects. You declare your goal by signing up on the ‘Accountability Spreadsheet’ You then draft your approach to the month, making sure you have done enough preparation to write a lot. You discuss your progress on social media like Twitter and Facebook. You have to work ...

  7. Latin conditional clauses - Wikipedia

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    'if you can't get there before that date, perhaps I'll see you in Rome' The combination sī nōn is preferred when a particular word is made negative: [36] sī fēcerīs, magnam habēbō grātiam; sī nōn fēcerīs, ignōscam (Cicero) [37] 'if you do it, I will be most grateful; but if you don't, I will forgive you'

  8. Speech tempo - Wikipedia

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    Speakers vary their speed of speaking according to contextual and physical factors. A typical speaking rate for English is 4 syllables per second, [5] but in different emotional or social contexts the rate may vary, one study reporting a range between 3.3 and 5.9 syl/sec, [6] Another study found significant differences in speaking rate between story-telling and taking part in an interview.

  9. Hiberno-Latin - Wikipedia

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    It has been suggested that the unusual vocabulary of the poems was the result of the monks learning Latin words from dictionaries and glossaries which did not distinguish between obscure and common words; unlike many others in Western Europe at the time, the Irish monks did not speak a language descended from Latin.