Yet, the shapes of characters — whether Latin or Chinese or Arabic or any language — and their relationship to the sound or meaning they represent is arbitrary, a prehistorical and historical function of social convention, a collective making by individuals. That arbitrariness provides the opening...
A transliteration oracle is a transliterate processor that converts strings based on the sound they represent from one writing system (such as Latin) to another (such as Arabic). The authors of the paper used two types of translation oracles—the first oracle, which accommodated spelling ...
late 14c. as an order of angels, from Late Latin cherub, from Greek kheroub, from Hebrew kerubh (plural kerubhim) "winged angel," which according to Klein is perhaps related to Akkadian karubu "to bless," karibu "one who blesses," an epithet of the bull-colossus. Old English had ...
In non-Latin scripts, say a Russian address and its transliterated equivalent, it's conceivable that two addresses referring to the same place may not match even a single character. As a motivating example, consider the following two equivalent ways to write a particular Manhattan street address ...
In non-Latin scripts, say a Russian address and its transliterated equivalent, it's conceivable that two addresses referring to the same place may not match even a single character. As a motivating example, consider the following two equivalent ways to write a particular Manhattan street address ...
(The original meaning of bugge is retained in English in such words as bugbear and bugaboo, and in the name of the insect-repelling plant, bugbane. And the scientific name of the bed bug, Cimex lectularius, means “bed bug,” cimex being the Latin for bug, and lectularius describing a...
flute-like instrument, 1650s, from Frenchflageolet, diminutive of Old Frenchflajol, from Provençalflajol, which is of uncertain origin, perhaps ultimately from Latinflare"to blow" (according to Watkins from PIE root*bhle-"to blow"). ...
Mexico’s antivenin industry, led by the Bioclon Institute, is world class, exporting serum to the USA and Australia as well as throughout Latin America. The biggest threat from scorpions comes from central and northern states in Mexico, including several along the Pacific Coast: Nayarit, ...
The Atotonilco Wastewater Treatment Plant will be the largest wastewater plant in Latin America and one of the largest in the world, with a biological treatment capacity of 23,000 liters/second (1.99 million m3/day). The wastewater treatment is performed by a series of conventional processes, ...
In transliteration we can use all applicable transliterators for a given Unicode script (Greek can for instance be transliterated with Greek-Latin, Greek-Latin-BGN and Greek-Latin-UNGEGN). Non-goals Verifying that a location is a valid address Actually geocoding addresses to a lat/lon (that ...