LIST OF BRITISH WORDS NOT WIDELY USED IN THE UNITED STATES A abseil to descend on a rope (US: rappel). From German abseilen. accountancy calculating and tracking financial matters (US: accounting). In the UK accounting is explaining oneself or one’s actions ("to give an account" or "accountability" in the U.S.A.)‚ accountancy is the profession. Action Man A toy similar to G.I. Joe. adder viper‚ a species of venomous snake advert advertisement (US and UK also: ad‚ commercial (on TV))
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Communication Barrier between Local and International Student in Malaysia. The increasing number of international student in Malaysia brings many benefits to the country as well to the local students. However‚ there are many problems that faced by these international students in this country. One of them is communication barrier between the local students. Communication barrier always bring difficulty to them when interacting with the local students in the campus. This includes both verbal and non-verbal
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DISCUSS SOME OF THE WAYS IN WHICH PEOPLE VALUES AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENGLISH ARE EXPRESSED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD. My EMA investigates values and attitudes towards the persuasive power of rhetoric in the USA and values and attitudes to English language policy and education in China. I have chosen these because I thought I would be interesting to investigate two different contexts in which English language has a totally different significance. What values and attitudes to English are
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SH** This word is one of the oldest of the current curse words that we use today. Its use can be found over 1‚000 years ago. It was first seen in the English language as scitte and was soon after known as scittan. This word was used to describe when cattle had diarrhea. It was also known as shite until the 1700s. Since then‚ we have used the current spelling of the word. A** / A**HOLE Since the 11th century‚ the word arse has been used to describe the buttocks of an animal. In the 14th
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Vernacular Language HUMA215-1205B-09 Unit 2 Individual Project 1/20/13 LaToya Marible Abstract Vernacular language is somewhat of a unique language that has seems to have such a wide spread throughout the 11th-14th century. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader of the impacts of vernacular language. After reading this paper you will understand what vernacular language is. Vernacular Language The spread for vernacular language was
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Good morning to our Principal‚ teachers and friends. I am Tania Chua‚ the president of theEnglish Society. Today‚ I am very honoured to be given this opportunity to share with you µTheImportance of English¶.From time immemorial‚ English is beyond doubt‚ the most significant language in the world.English is‚ unquestionably used as the one and only tool to break down existing languagebarriers among people of different races‚ cultures and nationality. As an international language‚English is spoken‚
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Mel Carter In “ The German Refugee” by Bernard Malamud‚ we have character named Oskar Gasnerr‚ who is a German- Jewish refugee‚ escaping from German Nazis and comes to America‚ where he has no kins and he can not speak the English language properly. He is supposed to give a lecture in English‚ which is too hard for him to do. Apart from having to talk a language he can’t‚ he is also detachted from her own counrty and family‚ and have economical and social difficulties there. No matter
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The Vernacular Language Over the course of humanity‚ there have been many different languages that have come and gone. As this topic is being discussed‚ we can probably assume that there is another spoken or written language being developed for use in one way or another. Latin is one of the most prominent languages and was one of the longest used amongst those that were educated and within literature. The real questions that beg to be answered are the origins of the language and what were the
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“Endangered languages should be saved” Many languages are at the danger of disappearance. The reason of their extinction could be the decrease in a number of people speaking that language. A 85% of 6000 languages appear to be spoken in 25 countries (NOW 2000). Language extinction is caused by external and internal factors. Internal forces such as community’s negative behaviour to mother language‚ or simply decrease in the number of speakers are mainly derived from factors such as military‚ economic
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The Origins of Vernacular Language and Its Spread Keturah Lindsey American Intercontinental University ABSTRACT The term vernacular can be defined as using a language that is native to a country or province‚ rather than a cultured‚ foreign‚ or literary language. The vernacular languages would also be considered as the large family of contemporary “Romance” languages (Matthews‚ 2007). These vernacular languages would one day be known to use as Spanish‚ French‚ Italian
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