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QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. In English, the letter Q is almost always followed immediately by the letter U, e.g. quiz, quarry, question, squirrel. However, there are some exceptions.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The first day of the battle consisted of light skirmishes; the main battle did not begin until 21 August. [ 6 ] According to the pre-war French strategy document, Plan XVII , German forces in the area were only expected to be light, with French light, rapid-firing artillery proving advantageous in a wooded terrain such as that found in the ...
November 10 Middle Eastern, Persian: Pro-Central Powers Iranians seize Shiraz from pro-Entente forces and arrest all British citizens in the city. November 10 – December 2 Italian: Fourth Battle of the Isonzo: November 10 – December 4 Balkan, Serbian: Kosovo Offensive, a phase of the Central Powers invasion of Serbia, Serbians pushed into ...
Battle of Gilboa – 1000 BC – Israeli–Philistine Wars; Battle of Gingindlovu – 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War; Battle of Glen Shiel – 1719 – Jacobite rising of 1719; Glorious First of June – 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars; Siege of Gloucester – 1643 – English Civil War; Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive – 1915 – World War I
Academic Word List; Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of animal names; List of English abbreviations made by shortening words; List of homophonic abbreviations; English auxiliary verbs; List of English auxiliary verbs
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
The Allied military phonetic spelling alphabets prescribed the words that are used to represent each letter of the alphabet, when spelling other words out loud, letter-by-letter, and how the spelling words should be pronounced for use by the Allies of World War II.