masc. proper name, 1066, from Old Breton Alan, name of a popular Welsh and Breton saint; brought to England by the large contingent of Bretons who fought alongside William the Conqueror. also from 1066 Entries linking to Alan Allen masc. proper name and surname, variant of Alan (q.v....
read the poetry, sing the songs and stumble over the Hebrew as we usually do. And then maybe not. I think it’s time I gave each one of them their own copy of theHaggadah, rather than keep them in a pile on my bookshelf. Time for responsibility. ...
It was disheartening to read a statement report in the United Methodist News service by Bishop Karen Oliveto. Bishop Oliveto, “who leads the Mountain Sky Conference and is the denomination’s first openly gay bishop, spoke to a gathering of LGBTQ saying “We are going to bring our love, ou...
This summer has also seen the publication of “TouchIT: Understanding Design in a Physical-Digital World“. Steve, Devina, Jo and I first conceived this when we were working together on theDePTHproject, which ran from 2007 to 2009 as part of the AHRC/EPSRC funded Designing for the 21st Ce...
At a university level the very idea behind the name ‘university’ was the bringing together of disparate scholars. In “The Rise and Progress of Universities” (Chapter 2.What is a University?, 1854) John Henry Newman (Cardinal Newman, recently beatified) wrote: ...
People who have had their benefit sanctioned are expected to survive on Hardship Payments of just over £40 a week, and that’s only if they qualify and someone at the Jobcentre bothers to tell them they exist. These payments are now being converted into loans meaning sanctioned c...
The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O. Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18) But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O. Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Aug 16) Have an...
GetNameListing() - A simple command that only returns the list of file paths in the given directory, using the NLST command. GetObjectInfo() - Get information for a single file or directory as an FtpListItem. It includes the type, date created, date modified, file size, permissions/chmod...
French file name:resource.fr-FR.txt. Using the Resource generator (Resgen)in theVisual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt, we will create three resource files which can be understood by the application, here is how: We are done with the resource files which will be used by the application and...
although I once even saw something suggesting that ‘long’ itself in the name was also “valley” in a different language! Deutscher gives many more prosaic examples where words meaning ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘she’ get accreted to verbs to create the verb endings found in languages such as ...