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  2. Common English usage misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    The word "inflammable" can be derived by two different constructions, both following standard rules of English grammar: appending the suffix -able to the word inflame creates a word meaning "able to be inflamed", while adding the prefix in-to the word flammable creates a word meaning "not flammable".

  3. Grammar - Wikipedia

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    Differences in scale are important to this meaning: for example, English grammar could describe those rules followed by every one of the language's speakers. [2] At smaller scales, it may refer to rules shared by smaller groups of speakers. A description, study, or analysis of such rules may also be known as a grammar, or as a grammar book.

  4. Is Is - Wikipedia

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    The EP has been released on CD, double 7" vinyl, USB flash drive and digital download. "Down Boy" was originally released as a split single with Liars only released in Australia and Japan . The album title is an extraction of the fourth track song Isis, which in turn is an extraction of the Egyptian goddess Isis .

  5. Yes and no - Wikipedia

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    Yes and no, or similar word pairs, are expressions of the affirmative and the negative, respectively, in several languages, including English.Some languages make a distinction between answers to affirmative versus negative questions and may have three-form or four-form systems.

  6. Filler (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Every conversation involves turn-taking, which means that whenever someone wants to speak and hears a pause, they do so. Pauses are commonly used to indicate that someone's turn has ended, which can create confusion when someone has not finished a thought but has paused to form a thought; in order to prevent this confusion, they will use a filler word such as um, er, or uh.

  7. Urdu Dictionary Board - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.

  8. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.

  9. Minced oaths in media - Wikipedia

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    One of the more infamous TV edits is that of John McClane's iconic line from Die Hard, "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker" is changed to "Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon". The TV edit of the film The Usual Suspects , instead of having the police lineup say, "Give me the keys, you fucking cocksucker", they say "Give me the keys, you fairy godmother".