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The word Cockaigne traces to Middle English cokaygne, tracing to Middle French (païs de) cocaigne "(land of) plenty," ultimately adapted or derived from a word for cake. The Dutch equivalent is Luilekkerland ("lazy luscious land") and the German equivalent is Schlaraffenland (also known as "land of milk and honey"). In Spain, an equivalent place of Cockaigne is n ...

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Cockaigne, Cockaigne - Etymology of Cockaigne, Cockaigne - Descriptions, Cockaigne - Traditions, Cockaigne - Cockaigne in the arts

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Bambaiyya Hindi, Mumbaiyya, or Bombay Hindi is a slang form of Hindi spoken primarily in Mumbai (Bombay, formerly). On the streets of Mumbai, people from every part of India co-exist. Their inter-mingling has created a language that has Hindi as a base, but includes words and pronunciations from other languages such as English, Marathi and Gujarati, as well as languages from South India (as evide ...

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• Bambaiya Hindi - Examples

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Barry Sheene MBE (September 11, 1950 - March 10, 2003) was a legendary British motorcycle racer, winning several British and World Championships. He became the British 125 cc champion aged just 20, and finished second in the World Championships for that class a year later. A spectacular crash at Daytona in 1975 threatened to end his career, breaking his left thigh, right arm, collarbone and two ribs, yet he recovered and was racing again shortly afterwards. In 1976 he won five Grands Prix, bringing him the World C ...

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Aristasia is an all-female society existing primarily in England but with adherents in many other parts of the world, notably the United States. It is also known as the Feminine Empire. Aristasia - Introduction. Aristasia was founded at Oxford in the 1970s in reaction to what its founders saw as the collapse of cultural values following the 1960s. They called this collapse "the Eclipse", a term that has since been adopted by other writers. The cultural Eclipse ... took place in [the] ...

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• Aristasia - Introduction
• Aristasia - Aristasia
• Aristasia - Aristasia Pura
• Aristasia - Blondes and brunettes
• Aristasia - Aristasia-in-Telluria
• Aristasia - Political alignment
• Aristasia - Language
• Aristasia - Controversies

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Alfie is a 2004 American-British comedy romance film starring Jude Law as the title character. It is written and directed by Charles Shyer. It is a remake of the 1966 film of the same name starring Michael Caine. The 2004 version of Alfie takes place in New York City, rather than in London, where the original 1966 film took place. The music score was composed by Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, former Eurythmic Dave Stewart, and John Powell, featuring 13 orig ...

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• Alfie 2004 film - Plot summary
• Alfie 2004 film - Cast & Crew

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Humulus lupulus L. Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. Humulus yunnanensis Hu The hop (Humulus) is a small genus of flowering plants, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The female flowers, commonly called hops, are used as flavouring and stabilisers during beer brewing. Although frequently referred to as the hop vine, it is technically a bine; unlike vines, which use tendrils, suckers, and other appendages for attaching themselves, bines have stout stems w ...

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• Hop plant - Species
• Hop plant - Cultivation
• Hop plant - History
• Hop plant - Propagation and pests
• Hop plant - Harvest
• Hop plant - Uses
• Hop plant - Beer
• Hop plant - Medicinal use
• Hop plant - Fibre
• Hop plant - Other uses

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A toilet is a plumbing fixture and a disposal system primarily intended for the disposal of the bodily wastes urine and feces. In addition to this primary purpose, it is frequently used to dispose of other waste matter. The word toilet can be used to refer to the fixture itself or the room containing it; the latter predominates mainly in British and Commonwealth usage. Toilet - Etymology. The word toilet came to be used in English along with other French fashions (first noted 1681), and ...

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• Toilet - Etymology
• Toilet - Khazi
• Toilet - Loo
• Toilet - Types of toilets
• Toilet - Toilets in private residences
• Toilet - Public toilets
• Toilet - High-tech toilets
• Toilet - History
• Toilet - Culture
• Toilet - Disposal
• Toilet - Graffiti
• Toilet - Furtive sexual relations
• Toilet - Social bonding
• Toilet - Sex- or caste-based cleaning roles
• Toilet - Unusual uses
• Toilet - The Great Equalizer
• Toilet - Bibliography

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Bey is the Turkish word for "chieftain," traditionally applied to the leaders of small tribal groups. In historical accounts, many Turkish, other Turkic and Persian leaders are titled bey, beg or beigh. They are all the same word with the simple meaning of "leader." The regions or provinces where beys ruled or which they administered were called beylik, roughly meaning "emirate" or "principality" in the first case, "province" or "governorate" in the second. Bey - Turkish beys. Including:

• Bey - Turkish beys
• Bey - Beys elsewhere
• Bey - Sources and references

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English is a West Germanic language that is spoken in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, the United States, and many other countries. English is now the third-most spoken native language worldwide (after Chinese and Hindi), with some 380 million speakers. It has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries and that of the United S ...

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• English language - History
• English language - Classification and related languages
• English language - Geographic distribution
• English language - English as a global language
• English language - Dialects and regional variants
• English language - Constructed variants of English
• English language - Sounds
• English language - Vowels
• English language - Consonants
• English language - Intonation
• English language - Tone groups
• English language - Characteristics of intonation
• English language - Grammar
• English language - Vocabulary
• English language - Number of words in English
• English language - Word origins
• English language - Writing system
• English language - Basic sound-letter correspondence
• English language - Written accents
• English language - Dialects
• English language - Pronunciation
• English language - Social cultural or political
• English language - Grammar
• English language - Usage
• English language - Dictionaries

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The Brothers Karamazov (Братья Карамазовы in Russian) is generally considered one of the greatest novels by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and the culmination of his life's work. It has been acclaimed all over the world by authors as diverse as Sigmund Freud, Andrew R. MacAndrew, Konstantin Mochulsky, Albert Einstein, and Pope Benedict XVI and is often regarded as a masterpiece of literature and one of the greatest novels ever written. The book is written on two levels: on the surface it is the story of a ...

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• The Brothers Karamazov - Context and background
• The Brothers Karamazov - Structure
• The Brothers Karamazov - Translation
• The Brothers Karamazov - List of major characters
• The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Karamazov
• The Brothers Karamazov - Dmitri Karamazov
• The Brothers Karamazov - Ivan Karamazov
• The Brothers Karamazov - Alexei Karamazov
• The Brothers Karamazov - Pavel Smerdyakov
• The Brothers Karamazov - Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova
• The Brothers Karamazov - Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva
• The Brothers Karamazov - Zosima
• The Brothers Karamazov - Ilusha
• The Brothers Karamazov - Synopsis
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book One: A Nice Little Family
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Two: An Inappropriate Gathering
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Three: Sensualists
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Four: Strains
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Five: Pro and Contra
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Six: The Russian Monk
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Seven: Alyosha
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Eight: Mitya
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Nine: The Preliminary Investigation
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Ten: Boys
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Eleven: Brother Ivan Fyodorovich
• The Brothers Karamazov - Book Twelve: A Judicial Error
• The Brothers Karamazov - Epilogue
• The Brothers Karamazov - The novel's influence

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Coronation Street is Britain's longest-running television soap opera, and the UK's consistently highest-rated show. It was created by Tony Warren and first broadcast on the ITV network on Friday December 9, 1960. The working title of the show was Florizel Street, but Agnes, a tea lady at Granada Television, Manchester, (where Coronation Street is produced) remarked that "Florizel" sounded too much like a disinfecta ...

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• Coronation Street - Background to Coronation Street
• Coronation Street - 1960s kitchen-sink drama
• Coronation Street - Characters and characterisations
• Coronation Street - Long-established characters
• Coronation Street - Other well-known actors
• Coronation Street - Humour
• Coronation Street - Major events on the Street
• Coronation Street - Backstage staff
• Coronation Street - Scheduling
• Coronation Street - Other countries
• Coronation Street - VHS and DVD releases
• Coronation Street - Trivia

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Cosmo Kramer (usually referred to by his last name only) is a fictional character on the US television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), played by Michael Richards. Kramer is the wacky neighbor and friend of Jerry Seinfeld. Cosmo was known only as "Kramer" for many years on the sitcom; not even Jerry knew his real first name. It was George Costanza who found out his unusual name through an encounter with Kramer's mother, Babs. Cosmo Kramer - The real-life Kramer. Kramer's character is base ...

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• Cosmo Kramer - The real-life Kramer
• Cosmo Kramer - A Loathsome Brute
• Cosmo Kramer - Kramer's schemes
• Cosmo Kramer - Pseudonyms

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American, when used as an adjective, can mean "of the United States of America" or "of or relating to the Americas"; when used as a noun, "United States citizen", "residing in the Americas", or less frequently "US English". This development in meaning and usage is somewhat analogous to the use in the Dutch language of the words for "African", Afrikaan (noun) and Afrikaans (adjective and noun). See also Asian. Use of the word American - American in the Americas. ...

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• Use of the word American - American in the Americas
• Use of the word American - American in cultural usages
• Use of the word American - American in other languages
• Use of the word American - Seeking alternate names
• Use of the word American - The alternatives
• Use of the word American - Less Serious Alternatives
• Use of the word American - Scholarly Sources

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The velarized alveolar lateral approximant, which may actually be uvularized or pharyngealized, also known as dark el, is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Velarized alveolar lateral approximant - Features. Features of the velarized alveolar lateral approximant: Its manner of articulation is approximant, which means it is produced by bringing one articulator close to another but without the vocal tract being narrowed to such an extent that a turbulent ai ...

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• Velarized alveolar lateral approximant - Features
• Velarized alveolar lateral approximant - In English

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A Clockwork Orange is a science fiction 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess, and forms the basis for the 1971 film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick. The novel is widely regarded as a successor to earlier great fiction novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, We, and Anthem. It is one of Burgess's 'terminal novels,' written to provide posthumous income for his wife after Burgess had ...

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• A Clockwork Orange - Synopsis
• A Clockwork Orange - Analysis
• A Clockwork Orange - Influence
• A Clockwork Orange - Trivia
• A Clockwork Orange - Alternate usages

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Phonological history of English consonants - H-cluster reductions. Glide cluster reductions The wine-whine merger is a merger by which the sound /ʍ/ or sequence /hw/ (spelt wh) becomes [w]. The yew-hew merger is a process that causes the cluster /hj/ to be reduced to /j/. The hl-cluster, hr-cluster and ...

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• Phonological history of English consonants - Consonant cluster reductions
• Phonological history of English consonants - H-cluster reductions
• Phonological history of English consonants - Y-cluster reductions
• Phonological history of English consonants - Other initial cluster reductions
• Phonological history of English consonants - Final cluster reductions
• Phonological history of English consonants - Phonological history of NG
• Phonological history of English consonants - NG coalescence
• Phonological history of English consonants - G-dropping
• Phonological history of English consonants - H-dropping and h-adding
• Phonological history of English consonants - H-dropping
• Phonological history of English consonants - H-adding
• Phonological history of English consonants - Elimination of velar fricatives in English
• Phonological history of English consonants - Taut-taught merger
• Phonological history of English consonants - Wait-weight merger
• Phonological history of English consonants - Lock-loch merger
• Phonological history of English consonants - Elimination of dental fricatives in English dialects
• Phonological history of English consonants - TH fronting
• Phonological history of English consonants - TH stopping
• Phonological history of English consonants - Vent-went merger
• Phonological history of English consonants - Initial fricative voicing

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The voiceless glottal transition, commonly called a "fricative", is a type of sound used in some spoken languages which often behaves like a consonant, but sometimes behaves more like a vowel, or is indeterminate in its behavior. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is h, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is h. Voiceless glottal fricative - Features. Features of the "voiceless glottal fricative": ...

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• Voiceless glottal fricative - Features
• Voiceless glottal fricative - In English
• Voiceless glottal fricative - In other languages
• Voiceless glottal fricative - Arabic
• Voiceless glottal fricative - Basque
• Voiceless glottal fricative - Finnish
• Voiceless glottal fricative - German
• Voiceless glottal fricative - Kazakh
• Voiceless glottal fricative - Romanian
• Voiceless glottal fricative - Spanish
• Voiceless glottal fricative - Uzbek

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Robert William "Bob" Hoskins (born October 26, 1942) is a British actor best known for playing Cockney rough diamonds and gangsters, and for family films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, Eddie Valiant). Bob Hoskins - Early life. Born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (of part Roma descent), Bob Hoskins had a number of occupations before going into acting, and made his stage debut in 1969. He hit the big time in 1978 when he starred in Dennis Potter's successful BBC drama serial, Pen ...

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• Bob Hoskins - Early life
• Bob Hoskins - Career

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For the genealogist George Edward Cokayne, see Cokayne's Complete Peerage Cockaigne was a medieval land, a mythical land of plenty, where all the harshness of medieval peasant life did not exist. Cockaigne - Etymology of Cockaigne. The word Cockaigne traces to Middle English cokaygne, tracing to Middle French (païs de) cocaigne "(land of) plenty," ultimately adapted or derived from a word for cake. The Dutch equivalent is Luilekkerland ("lazy luscious ...

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• Cockaigne - Etymology of Cockaigne
• Cockaigne - Descriptions
• Cockaigne - Traditions
• Cockaigne - Cockaigne in the arts

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List of constructed languages - Fictional languages. Ailurin is the language spoken by cats (at least those living in New York) in Diane Duane's fantasy books. Aklo, Tsath-yo, and R'lyehian are ancient and obscure languages in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and others. Aklo is considered by some writers to be the written language of the Serpent People Ancient Language in the Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini Anglic from David Brin's Uplift ...

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List of constructed languages, List of constructed languages - Auxiliary languages, List of constructed languages - Spoken, List of constructed languages - Controlled languages, List of constructed languages - Visual languages, List of constructed languages - Engineered languages, List of constructed languages - Human-usable, List of constructed languages - Knowledge representation, List of constructed languages - Artistic languages, List of constructed languages - Fictional languages, List of constructed languages - Alternative languages, List of constructed languages - Micronational languages, List of constructed languages - Personal languages, List of constructed languages - Language games

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