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2. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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   The word originates from the Old French word jouel [83] (whose contemporary French equivalent is joyau, with the same meaning). The standard pronunciation / ˈ dʒ uː ə l r i / [ 84 ] does not reflect this difference, but the non-standard pronunciation / ˈ dʒ uː l ər i / (which exists in New Zealand and Britain, hence the Cockney rhyming ...

3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...

4. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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   Numeral prefix. Numeral or number prefixes are prefixes derived from numerals or occasionally other numbers. In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example: In many European languages there are two principal systems, taken from Latin and Greek, each with several subsystems; in addition, Sanskrit ...

5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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   Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.

6. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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   This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the ...

7. Comparison of American and British English - Wikipedia

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   Differences between the two include pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary (lexis), spelling, punctuation, idioms, and formatting of dates and numbers. However, the differences in written and most spoken grammar structure tend to be much fewer than in other aspects of the language in terms of mutual intelligibility.

8. American and British English grammatical differences

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   However, in British grammar, it is also possible for should and would to have the same meaning, with a distinction only in terms of formality (should simply being more formal than would). For most Americans, this nuance has been lost, with would being used in both contexts; [ 22 ] for example, I should like to leave is no longer a formal way to ...

9. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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   The number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in ...