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  2. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  3. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    While proper names may be realized by multi-word constituents, a proper noun is word-level unit in English. Thus, Zealand, for example, is a proper noun, but New Zealand, though a proper name, is not a proper noun. [4] Unlike some common nouns, proper nouns do not typically show number contrast in English.

  4. Wikipedia:Proper names and proper nouns - Wikipedia

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    A proper name in linguistics – and in the specific sense employed at Wikipedia – is normally a kind of noun phrase. That is, it has a noun or perhaps another noun phrase as its core component (or head), and perhaps one or more modifiers. Most proper names have a proper noun as their head: Old Trafford; Bloody Mary.

  5. Vocative case - Wikipedia

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    Masculine nouns Nominative Vocative Translation Feminine nouns Nominative Vocative Translation Current standard Other forms Current standard Other forms o-stems vilkas: vilke! wolf a-stems tautà [sg.] taũta! people jo-stems vėjas: vėjau! Old. Lith. vėje! wind e-stems katė: kate! cat ijo-stems gaidys: gaidy! rooster i-stems avis: avie ...

  6. American and British English grammatical differences

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    With exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular. [5] The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns (for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team). For instance,

  7. Add, edit, or delete Address Book contacts in AOL Desktop Gold

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    The Address Book in Desktop Gold helps you keep track of email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, birthdays, and anniversaries of your contacts. You can sort your Address Book by last name, first name, email address, screen name, telephone number, or category. Just use the Quick Find box to easily search through your contacts. Add a ...

  8. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    APA Style is a “down” style, meaning that words are lowercase unless there is specific guidance to capitalize them such as words beginning a sentence; proper nouns and trade names; job titles and positions; diseases, disorders, therapies, theories, and related terms; titles of works and headings within works; titles of tests and measures; nouns followed by numerals or letters; names of ...

  9. 101 Animals That Start With 'N'—How Many Can You Name? - AOL

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    That’s why we’ve compiled a list of over 100 animals that start with “N” so you can learn more about them. The best part is these remarkable creatures aren't confined to a single species ...