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1 day ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. [4][5][6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain.
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5 days ago · An acronym for subject matter expert. Smerge. A contraction of "slight merge " or "selective merge", sometimes used in Articles for deletion discussions. This is for when a topic deserves mention in another article, but not to the extent and detail that is already included (a partial merge and redirect).
2 days ago · The trend among dictionary editors appears to be towards including a sense defining acronym as initialism: the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary added such a sense in its 11th edition in 2003, [22] [23] and both the Oxford English Dictionary [24] [4] and The American Heritage Dictionary [25] [12] added such senses in their 2011 editions.
2 days ago · American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, [b] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. [4] English is the most widely spoken language in the United States; the de facto common language used in government, education and commerce; and an official language of most U.S. states (32 out of 50). [5]
5 days ago · In 2003 Nupedia was terminated and its articles moved into Wikipedia. By 2006 the English-language version of Wikipedia had more than 1,000,000 articles, and by the time of its 10th anniversary in 2011 it had surpassed 3,500,000. However, while the encyclopedia continued to expand at a rate of millions of words per month, the number of new ...
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4 days ago · Cambridge Dictionary - English dictionary, English-Spanish translation and British & American English audio pronunciation from Cambridge University Press
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Sep 6, 2024 · 3rd edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, and hundreds of explanatory notes, this dictionary provides comprehensive and accurate coverage of American English. Based on the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus and the citation files of the Oxford English Dictionary.
