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First (1988) edition Cover artist: Thomas William Bowler, Graham's Town from the Bay Road, 1865 White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa is a collection of essays by Nobel-laureate J. M. Coetzee, originally published in 1988, and in 2007 was reprinted, with a new introduction, by Pentz Publishers (ISBN 9780980270006).
The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White) is a style guide for formal grammar used in American English writing. The first publishing was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a ...
The word white continues Old English hwīt, ultimately from a Common Germanic *χ w ītaz also reflected in OHG (h)wîz, ON hvítr, Goth. ƕeits.The root is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European language *k w id-, surviving also in Sanskrit śveta "to be white or bright" [6] and Slavonic světŭ "light".
The sociologists Philip Q. Yang and Kavitha Koshy have also questioned what they call the "becoming white thesis", noting that Irish Americans have been legally classified as white since the first US census in 1790, that Irish Americans were legally white for the purposes of the Naturalization Act of 1790 that limited citizenship to "free White ...
In English and most European languages where words are read left-to-right, text is usually aligned "flush left", [1] meaning that the text of a paragraph is aligned on the left-hand side with the right-hand side ragged. This is the default style of text alignment on the World Wide Web for left-to-right text. [2] Quotations are often indented ...
white-on-blue (), black-on-yellow (): employed in Germany and Norway. black-on-yellow (): employed in Iceland (where there are no expressways or motorways). white-on-blue for both (): employed in the Netherlands. white-on-green for both (): employed in China and Sweden. Local traffic road signs usually employ black text on white.
Correction fluid can be written on after it has dried. Correction fluid bottle Correction fluid bottle Correction pen. A correction fluid (or correction liquid) is an opaque, usually white fluid applied to paper to mask errors in text.
Written in October 1968, the activist poem "Speak White" by Quebec poet Michèle Lalonde references the expression's derogatory use against French-speaking Canadians, and the work as a whole rejects the imposition of the English language and Anglo-American culture, and denounces the political and economic oppression of the French language and those who speak it. [1]