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Old English --> Middle English --> Early Modern English --> Modern English When I was in high school my theater teacher (who was also an English teacher) used to get annoyed when people would refer to Shakespeare as "Old English" when it Early...
Started by aria on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at neo-geo):
He starts off writing in Old English then transitions to Middle and eventually modern English....
I'm amazed that there's still people" chapter in James Joyce's Ulysses .
Yet, I can still kinda make out some things in the old english.
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For example: I have an en.lproj subdirectory in my application bundle which contains all English content.
Now, Apple says that users can choose not only a language, but also some kind of dialect too. So we may have here "American English" or "British ...
Started by Thanks on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
According.
I don't know..
But maybe after "en_US", the system looks for "en".
Language is not english).
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Hi,
Does anyone know of a library or bit of code that converts British English to American English and vice versa?
I don't imagine there's too many differences (some examples that come to mind are doughnut/donut, colour/color, grey/gray, localised/localized...
Started by Graphain on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I think if you're thinking of converting from American English to British English, I personally wouldn't bother....
The difference between UK and US English is far greater than just a difference in spelling as ease with the site language.
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I'm using an English Windows 7 with speech recognition working fine if I'm dictating in English.
I would like to dictate a letter in German. I don't need further features that let you use your computer without a mouse, I want to dictate my letter.
If ...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
If you want to use the German recognizer, then you'll have to set your OS language to ... .
It sounds like you need to install the Windows MUI Pack before being able to change the language in the Speech Recognition software .
I don't know if it's possible.
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As a dictionary(English to English) offers the transcriptions of all words: it helps to understand and learn the pronunciation. Therefore it increases the knowledge of getting different meaning, synonymous words, application etc of each word.If we get...
Started by sushmita on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at daffodilvarsity):
And enrich our knowledge of English language, going through a good English to English dictionary dictionary" as this is recommended for all the English Learners,Can you suggest me Whether I am going on the right way to grab....
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Welcome to the English practice thread!
I'm sure there are many non-native speakers on this board who haven't had the opportunity to perfect their English yet. While learning vocabulary is easy, at least for me, picking up grammatical rules and the many...
Started by tes on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at xkcd):
English has no ....
English has no inherent grammatical? Then join #xkcd-ponies! You won't be sorry.
The title should be (I believe) English as It is Spoken.
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I honestly feel a bit (just a bit) embarrassed when I can't figure out how to write an expression, I have it on my mind and sometimes when I try to write it in English is a bit... difficult Sometimes I think my expression are well-written but there's ...
Started by jpguy on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ukmix):
You have much better grammar than a lot of posters on here who claim English as their primary-native speakers, you are one of the best ones on here I can assure you!
I've often heard that English" (just read that one)
I never took....
Posts.
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British children are increasingly using American English in their writing, according to a report based on entries to a BBC short story competition.
Oxford University Press studied around 74,000 entries for Radio 2's 500 Words contest.
Americanisms such...
Started by Android Spartan on
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by 20 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at bungie):
Cool, I guess....
Yo, yo newbs.
American English es superior to British English.
Americanisms...
LOL great, talk about influence...
British English right and American English wrong - other than your blind patriotism of course.
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Does anybody try to upgrade firmware at English Sony VGF-CP1 ? I found Japanese version of the firmware 2.0 , but not sure it will fit and my frame will have English language.
Started by FoxyBOA on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Thanks.
New firmware 2.0 in english.
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Daily Quote: : MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland face English voting ban
MPs from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland could finally be barred from voting on exclusively English laws after ministers agreed to set up a commission on the so-...
Started by by Lewis on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at politicsforum):
As to your concern about the government struggling to pass English only matters at all, hopefully it should just mean that the....
That English MPs can't vote on Scottish only matters, but Scottish MPs can vote on English only matters.
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