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• Latin elements in English word formation
  ...y common in technical and academic vocabulary. Some of the complexities of Latin and Greek based word formation (morphology) are presented here. ==Latin abbreviations & expressions in academic writing==
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• Consonant spelling patterns
  ...English, having been influenced by Old German, Old French, modern French, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and other languages. Thus, English spelling reflects the s | c || /s/ || Latin || ceiling, century
  3 KB (412 words) - 04:39, 7 February 2017
• Portal:Phonology/Prosody
  * [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/s.latin.stress.pdf Latin stress patterns (general)] * [http://www.kentlee7.com/phon/s.i.stem.pdf Latin/Greek i-stem suffixes]
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• Latin elements in English word formation
  ...y common in technical and academic vocabulary. Some of the complexities of Latin and Greek based word formation (morphology) are presented here. ==Latin abbreviations & expressions in academic writing==
  9 KB (1,177 words) - 01:41, 22 August 2018
• Copula
  ...verb affixed to the complement noun. The word ''copula'' derives from the Latin word for "link" or "tie". ...y or poetic, especially expressions borrowed and translated from Latin. In Latin, copulas are usually expressed, but in short phrases that are not complete
  4 KB (557 words) - 01:34, 16 October 2020
• English lexical stress patterns
  ...ish words with 1-3 syllables. They also work on common, shorter words from Latin (those that came into English long ago). == Latin patterns ==
  10 KB (1,419 words) - 01:53, 24 July 2019
• Long words
  ...of the longest non-technical words in major dictionaries. Etymology: from Latin floccus (“a wisp”) +‎ naucum (“a trifle”) +‎ nihilum (“nothin ...that can achieve honors || Not a real English word; this is a long word of Latin origin that was cited by Shakespeare in the play ''Love's Labour's Lost''.
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• Large numbers
  ...sand thousands). From there, each subsequent large number name is from the Latin names for the base number plus the suffix ''-illion'', such as two (billion ...differs from the long scale number systems used in Continental Europe and Latin America, where the numbers follow the pattern of million, milliard (1000 mi
  7 KB (804 words) - 00:06, 30 October 2022
• Academic versus non-academic writing
  |more technical vocabulary, especially terms from Latin & Greek; other words are used in a more specialized sense. |more specialized verbs from Latin and sometimes Greek; few light verbs or phrasal verbs
  6 KB (782 words) - 01:31, 17 December 2019
• Portal:EAP/Handouts
  # [http://kentlee7.com/eap/en.morphology.pdf English morphology: Summary of Latin & Greek word formation]
  2 KB (314 words) - 15:35, 27 May 2016
• English stress patterns (overview)
  language come from different languages, and in English we have Germanic, Latin, Greek, and French stress patterns. So learning a lot of rules will be of l ...e noun and ‘ultimate’ is the adjective referring to these positions<ref>In Latin, ultima = ‘last’; pen- = ‘almost;’ ante = ‘before’. I occasiona
  8 KB (1,277 words) - 13:10, 10 July 2023
• Silent letters
  ...nges. With the Modern English period, English became greatly influenced by Latin, modern French, and Greek. Some spelling patterns, for example, in French a ...t/. This holds true for words from Anglo-Saxon, and more common words from Latin, such as the following table, which shows silent ''-e'' with various vowel
  21 KB (3,020 words) - 06:35, 16 February 2023
• Research project proposal (college)
  ...am able to read historical scholarship on such topics, as well as ancient Latin and Greek texts. This project will be conducted as part of an independent s ...started in Etruria, in modern-day Tuscany, at roughly the same time as the Latin tribes in the area of Rome. Around 650 BCE, the Etruscans conquered Rome an
  20 KB (2,957 words) - 06:35, 12 July 2022
• Verb tenses
  ...'had gone'' or the future perfect ''will have gone''. Other languages like Latin, Greek, and Romance languages use more complex sets of verbal inflections t ...olds true for complex tenses in other Western languages such as German and Latin.
  7 KB (1,166 words) - 07:24, 23 April 2020
• Bisyllabic stress alternation
  ...ives in a few dozen pairs of words, including, oddly, some common words of Latin origin. ...n forms. A typical example is ''to recórd a récord.'' These are words from Latin that have become common enough to adopt
  8 KB (946 words) - 07:42, 11 January 2023
• Runes
  ...Anglo-Saxon. The dates of their use generally precede the adoption of the Latin alphabet for Germanic langauges, though the exact dates are debated among s
  3 KB (407 words) - 08:29, 13 June 2020
• Subject-verb agreement
  The noun ''data'' is a special case. It is a Latin plural, from the singular ''datum'' (a piece of data or information), which ...based on their study of Latin grammar, leading to inappropriately applying Latin patterns to English. This lead to arbitrary rules against the singular ''th
  14 KB (2,268 words) - 01:15, 20 November 2019
• Consonant phonemes /θ/ and /ð/ in spelling
  Note: Words with ''-or'' like author are usually from Latin, where again <th> = /θ/. * thyme (from Greek via Latin and Old French, apparently with French alteration of /θ/ to /t/, as French
  11 KB (1,540 words) - 04:37, 7 February 2017
• Consonant phonemes /ʒ/, /ʃ/
  ...at the voiced consonant /ʒ/ is less common in English. It occurs mainly in Latin words where an /s/ or other sound palatizes to a /ʒ/ in certain environmen ===Latin word formation===
  17 KB (2,448 words) - 05:20, 24 December 2019
• L2 connector errors (East Asians)
  ==== Latin abbreviations ==== In academic writing, the following Latin abbreviations are commonly used:
  18 KB (2,805 words) - 12:52, 3 May 2019
• Trisyllabic laxing
  ...the following syllables is unstressed. This generally involves words from Latin or Greek, particularly when suffixes are added, causing the tense vowel to ...or short vowel with the addition of certain suffixes. This is part of the Latin stress pattern that English has inherited, and can pose challenges for lear
  9 KB (1,107 words) - 07:34, 30 August 2019
• Palatal consonant phonemes /ʤ/, /ʧ/
  ...; this occurs in words from Old French and Latin spelled with <ch>, and in Latin words with spellings like <-Ction> (consonant plus ''-tion'' in spelling) l
  15 KB (2,279 words) - 12:53, 19 February 2017
• Phobias
  | Latinophobia || Latin people ...utyrophobia: fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth, from Latin arachis "peanut" and butyrum "butter". The word is used by Charles M. Schul
  16 KB (2,103 words) - 07:30, 7 October 2022
• Regular expressions
  ...acters, grouping symbols, metacharacters, or operators. This inlcudes most Latin letters, Arabic numerals, and non-alphanumeric symbols that have no assigne
  7 KB (1,069 words) - 09:29, 22 May 2023
• Proposals (writing)
  ...am able to read historical scholarship on such topics, as well as ancient Latin and Greek texts. This project will be conducted as part of an independent s ...started in Etruria, in modern-day Tuscany, at roughly the same time as the Latin tribes in the area of Rome. Around 650 BCE, the Etruscans conquered Rome an
  26 KB (4,000 words) - 07:57, 19 August 2022
• Vowel /æ/ phoneme
  ...The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is /æ/, which is an old Latin and Old English ligature of the letters 'a' and 'e';phonologists refer to t # Do you want to study math or Latin?
  13 KB (1,929 words) - 00:59, 8 February 2017
• Narrative techniques
  | In Medias Res || This Latin phrase means "in the middle of things." The story starts at a point within This Latin term meaning "god from the machine" refers to an unexpected, artificial and
  14 KB (2,236 words) - 12:39, 16 October 2023
• Pronunciation: Production exercises
  # Would you like to study math or Latin? (for /æ/ cf. /ε/)
  7 KB (1,050 words) - 14:31, 28 May 2016
• Adjectives
  ...ted from French (e.g., adjectives in 4b-c, food terms in 4d), or sometimes Latin (4a), where adjectives in these languages usually follow the nouns. Using t
  15 KB (2,271 words) - 11:03, 17 March 2023
• Vowel /ou/ phoneme (long vowel)
  * <o> in words of Latin and Greek origin, e.g., associate, episode, focus, ghost, host, local, mome The /ou/ vowel is subject to tense-lax alternations in words of Latin origin. When /ou/ is in final or near-final syllable position as in ''mode'
  15 KB (2,271 words) - 03:30, 8 February 2017
• Green Eggs and Ham (review)
  ...ut its poetic flavor; for further mystical exploration, one might find the Latin translation (''Virent ova! Virent perna!'') helpful.
  8 KB (1,267 words) - 12:53, 26 May 2016
• Modality
  ...modality, it is often called grammatical mood or mode. Common examples are Latin, Spanish, and French, with their distinctions between indicative (declarati
  9 KB (1,342 words) - 15:18, 11 June 2016
• Phoenician based alphabets
  ...pian Ge'ez !! Greek !! Egyptian Coptic !! Old Italic !! Germanic Runes !! Latin !! Slavic Cyrillic !! Georgian !! Armenian
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• Statistics: Comparing groups
  ...fference(s) would be, if there are more than two groups. Thus, a post hoc (Latin: “after this,” i.e., after the fact) test is needed to look for specifi ...iable, two-way ANOVAs with two independent variables, as well as so-called Latin square designs and split plot designs. You can look at such texts for more
  35 KB (5,545 words) - 08:39, 19 October 2018
• APA (overview)
  For many authors, in-text citations may use ‘et al.’ (Latin ''et alia'' = ‘and others’) instead of writing out all the names. In th
  10 KB (1,462 words) - 11:07, 14 November 2019
• Informal expressions
  ...French parts of the English lexicon) || Longer, multi-syllabic terms from Latin, Greek, modern French, or other languages || ''sick'' vs. ''infection'' ..., phrasal verbs should be replaced with more formal verbs (often, verbs of Latin origin) with more specific meanings. For example, many ESL students use '''
  21 KB (3,059 words) - 04:48, 25 November 2019
• Preposition
  Most Western languages use prepositions followed by nouns. One exception is Latin poetry, where a preposition might be placed after its noun complement for m
  11 KB (1,750 words) - 06:54, 29 January 2020
• Revision process steps
  #* Informal phrasal verbs, e.g., ''get out'' instead of more formal Latin words such as ''remove, extricate''.
  11 KB (1,791 words) - 06:04, 7 February 2020
• Music genres
  ...n genre is Gregorian chant, a form of plain chant with simple melodies and Latin lyrics, as well as early polyphonic forms like organum. Much of medieval mu
  13 KB (1,927 words) - 04:05, 23 September 2023
• Mnemonics
  The locus (Latin for 'place, location'; ''loci'' in the plural) method is an ancient method
  12 KB (1,841 words) - 06:47, 25 May 2016
• Google Scholar searches
  learning Latin related:[http://www.google.com/ www.google.com]
  14 KB (2,258 words) - 07:27, 21 September 2018
• Body language and gestures
  ...nce: nothing, poor quality; Japan: money, bribe; Mediterranean, Near East, Latin America: sexual insult
  16 KB (2,455 words) - 06:46, 25 May 2016
• Chicago Manual
  ...r more authors, then use the first author’s name followed by ''et al.'' (a Latin abbreviation for ''et alia'' ‘and others,’ similar to ''etc.'' for ''et For in-text citations, the author names are romanized (spelled in Latin letters), e.g.:
  49 KB (6,529 words) - 03:14, 4 December 2023
• Zoo exhibit activity
  | Stress tends to fall on second or third syllables from end<ref>This is the Latin penultimate / antepenultimate stress pattern, where the main stress tends t
  15 KB (2,220 words) - 15:41, 2 September 2016
• Vowel /eɪ/ phoneme (long vowel)
  The /eɪ/ vowel is subject to tense-lax alternations in words of Latin origin. When /eɪ/ is in final or near-final syllable position as in ''nati
  13 KB (1,967 words) - 02:17, 8 February 2017
• APA guide
  ...rst author followed by the abbreviation 'et al.' for the other names (from Latin ''et alia'' = ‘and others’) instead of writing out all the names. ...rs, the list is abbreviated with 'et al.' after the first name ('et al.' = Latin, "and others"). Of course, all names are listed in the end references.
  77 KB (11,095 words) - 01:41, 7 October 2018
• Consonant /r/ phoneme
  * The Latin letter R was derived from the Greek letter rho (which looks like P). The ea * The medical symbol for "prescription" is ℞ or Rx, from the Latin ''recipe'' (="take, take thou", an imperative form).
  20 KB (3,073 words) - 04:37, 7 February 2017
• Kent Lee (CV)
  ...enced proofreader. Fluent in German; some linguistic knowledge of Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Korean, ancient Greek, and others.
  17 KB (2,033 words) - 00:24, 22 October 2023
• Korean English errors
  ...et || a set of characters or letters that form a writing system, e.g., the Latin alphabet &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; || cf. 'letters' = characters of an alphabet ...use phrasal verbs less often and we prefer instead to use main verbs from Latin (or Greek) for more precise meanings; e.g.:
  37 KB (5,673 words) - 04:39, 25 November 2019
• Schemas
  ...of self and self-esteem, and whether you think you can successfully learn Latin.
  19 KB (2,940 words) - 06:49, 25 May 2016
• Pronunciation: Controlled activities
  # Do you want to study math or Latin?
  15 KB (2,522 words) - 14:31, 28 May 2016

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