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The 5000 words in Davies' list are lemmas. [5] A lemma is the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary. [6] Singular nouns and plurals, for example, are treated as the same word, as are infinitives and verb conjugations. The table below includes the top 100 words from Davies' list of 5000.
In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. There are different ways to define the lexical similarity and the results vary accordingly.
But the Spanish word is masculine when used with the first meaning, and feminine with the second: Me sorprendió el orden. ('I was surprised by the order [i.e., by how orderly it all was].') Me sorprendió la orden. ('I was surprised by the order [i.e., by the directive that was given].') In Portuguese, the equivalent word ordem is always feminine:
The term Hispanic traces back to the early days of the U.S. census. It was used to account for Spanish-speaking people in America. In 1976, ...
In most forms of English, percent is usually written as two words (per cent), although percentage and percentile are written as one word. [9] In American English, percent is the most common variant [10] (but per mille is written as two words). In the early 20th century, there was a dotted abbreviation form "per cent.", as opposed to "per cent".
[5] [6] The word promille is the cognate in Dutch, German, Finnish and Swedish, and is sometimes seen as a loanword in English with the same meaning as per mille. [7] [4] The symbol is included in the General Punctuation block of Unicode at U+2030 ‰ PER MILLE SIGN. [5] There is also an Arabic-Indic per mille sign at U+0609 ؉ ARABIC-INDIC PER ...
Percentage of the U.S. population aged 5 and over who speak the Spanish language at home in 2019, by states. Distribution of Hispanics in the U.S. in the 2020 United States census. U.S. Hispanics are citizens of the United States whose ancestry or national origin is of any of the nations composing the Hispanosphere.
[90] Unique words and expressions in Philippine Spanish can be broadly placed into four categories: Words and expressions borrowed into Philippine Spanish, or even Spanish more broadly, as a result of contact with the Philippine languages (such as bolo, which was borrowed from the Tagalog bolo, [91] or baguio to describe typhoons). [92]