Some of our words and our spellings do reflect British usage, however. We wouldn’t use the British term “lorry” for truck, but we have kept the “o-u-r” spellings in words such as “honour” and “colour”.I: This has been very interesting. I’m afraid we’re out of time....
Even though speech and song both rely on fundamental frequency (F0) information to convey meaning, F0 in song is more stable and moves discretely from one perceived pitch to the next, while the F0 of speech glides continuously from syllable to syllable (Zatorre and Baum, 2012; Vanden Bosch ...
【3】Which of the verses has similar meaning to the saying “All is not gold that glitters(闪光); but gold will glitter forever.”? A. verse 100 B. verse 69 C. verse 230 D. verse 206 【4】Which of the verses might be most suitable said to parents, telling them not to spoil thei...
it came from the Bengali region where it was used to describe one-storey homes built for early European immigrants, meaning "belonging to Bengal".John Worne, director of strategy at the British Council, said: "Many of our most popular and evocative English words -- words we couldn't live ...
The fact that 延辰 could mean “prolonging the morning” was not intentional, though I do love that it has the meaning. When naming in Chinese characters and romanized names, it’s important to me to love both versions of their names phonetically and visually. This is very subjective. For...
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WELL-MEANING but misguided. That's the response from a leading Bangladeshi businessman to the allocation of seven new homes to Bangladeshis who will all live as neighbours. 'We need the Bangladeshi community to stretch outwards to the white community,' says Faizur Choudhury, a prosperous res...
Foodies: A Moti jalebi Deep fried banana chips Sarafa Bazaar Lucknow Tundey Kebabs Foodies: Amritsari naan There was a hot favourite and that was vada pav in Mumbai, too many people listed that to mention including Pradeep Murthy from Muddy Boots Vacations, Gaurav Bhatnagar from The Folk Tales,...
The offset from the top inset (or right inset if blockProgression is RL) of the container to the baseline of the first line can be either BaselineOffset.ASCENT, meaning equal to the ascent of the line, BaselineOffset.LINE_HEIGHT, meaning equal to the height of that first line, o...
A test that looks at such stringification thus doesn't need to have the system default flags hard-coded in it, just the caret. If new flags are added to Perl, the meaning of the caret's expansion will change to include the default for those flags, so the test will still work, ...