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  2. List of English words with dual French and Old English ...

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    wish, will, yearning, longing, want (verb) desire (verb and noun) span distance tumble somersault drink (noun + verb) beverage, imbibe deal amount everlasting eternal freedom liberty brittle frail, fragile weak feeble, faint wild savage betrothal proposal kingship monarchy forebear, forefather ancestor reckless intrepid awesome, unbelievable

  3. Grammaticalization - Wikipedia

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    Compound verbs are thus generally written with a kanji for each constituent verb, but some suffixes have become grammaticalized, and are written in hiragana, such as 'try out, see' (〜みる, -miru), from 'see' (見る, miru), as in 'try eating (it) and see' (食べてみる, tabetemiru).

  4. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    sight-read – sight-read – sight-read: Weak, class 1: With coalescence of dentals and vowel shortening reave – reaved/reft – reaved/reft bereave – bereaved/bereft – bereaved/bereft: Weak, class 2: With devoiced ending and vowel shortening; the verb bereave is usually regular, but bereft survives as past participle, with distinct meanings

  5. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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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. The three Rs - Wikipedia

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    The three Rs [1] are three basic skills taught in schools: reading, writing and arithmetic", Reading, wRiting, and ARithmetic [2] or Reckoning. The phrase appears to have been coined at the beginning of the 19th century.

  7. Create, read, update and delete - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) are the four basic operations (actions) of persistent storage. [1] CRUD is also sometimes used to describe user interface conventions that facilitate viewing, searching, and changing information using computer-based forms and reports .

  8. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    Herr – in modern German either the equivalent of Mr. (Mister), to address an adult man, or "master" over something or someone (e.g. Sein eigener Herr sein: to be his own master). Derived from the adjective hehr, meaning "honourable" or "senior", it was historically a nobleman's title, equivalent to "Lord".

  9. Mnemonic major system - Wikipedia

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    3 /m/ m: Lower case m has three vertical strokes. Both upper case M and lower case m each have three points on the baseline and look like the numeral 3 on its side. 4 /r/ r, l (as sounded in colonel) Four ends with r (and /r/ in rhotic accents). 5 /l/ l: L is the Roman numeral for 50. Among the five digits of one's left hand, the thumb and ...