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  2. Category:Pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    It should only contain pages that are Pejorative terms for people or lists of Pejorative terms for people, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about Pejorative terms for people in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .

  3. List of English words of Hawaiian origin - Wikipedia

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    Child of the Land, refers to any person born and raised in Hawai’i. Does not describe someone who moves to Hawai’i. [kəməˈʔaːjnə] Link: Keiki: A child. Link: Kukui: The candlenut tree, state tree of Hawaii, so named because the nuts were used as candles.

  4. Response to sneezing - Wikipedia

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    If the person has sneezed three times: Morgen mooi weer. Less commonly used: Proost "Health" If the person has sneezed three times: "The weather will be nice tomorrow" From the Latin prōsit meaning "May it be good"; "To your health" [notes 1] Dank u (wel) (formal) or Dank je (wel) (informal) "Thank you" English: God bless you, Bless you, or ...

  5. 'Quiz Lady' Actually Has Some Real-Life Inspirations - AOL

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    For one, the quiz show seems eerily similar to real life television tournaments like Jeopardy! and the sister dynamic is a little too on point. Turns out, there are some true elements to the Quiz ...

  6. Human - Wikipedia

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    [26] [27] The earliest record of Homo is the 2.8 million-year-old specimen LD 350-1 from Ethiopia, and the earliest named species are Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis which evolved by 2.3 million years ago. [27] H. erectus (the African variant is sometimes called H. ergaster) evolved 2 million years ago and was the first archaic human species ...

  7. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    The Grim Reaper [2] Personification of death Cultural: A skeleton with a scythe, often in a cloak. Also commonly truncated to just "The Reaper". Hand in one's dinner pail [2] To die Informal No longer required at workmen's canteen Happy hunting ground Dead Informal Used to describe the afterlife according to Native Americans Hara-kiri

  8. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  9. List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang , have become widely used in other varieties of English , and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.