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PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image. [6] It can handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as branching and looping. [6] PDF is a subset of PostScript, simplified to remove such control flow features, while graphics commands remain. [6]
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in Early Medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
An English writing style is a combination of features in an English language composition that has become characteristic of a particular writer, a genre, a particular organization, or a profession more broadly (e.g., legal writing ). An individual's writing style may be distinctive for particular themes, personal idiosyncrasies of phrasing and ...
Baker wrote in The Guardian that Polari was often used sarcastically or as a way to throw shade. This included inventing feminizing terms for the largely male group (at the time) that persecuted ...
Toponymy. At the time of the first British arrival, Darjeeling was known among its Lepcha inhabitants as Dorje-ling, or the "Place of the Thunderbolt." According to the Oxford Concise Dictionary of World Place Names, Darjeeling is derived from the Tibetan Dorje ling or Dorje-glin, meaning "Land of Dorje," i.e. of the vajra, the weapon of the Hindu god Indra.
Today's British English spellings mostly follow Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), while many American English spellings follow Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ("ADEL", "Webster's Dictionary", 1828). Webster was a proponent of English spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic.
Dazzling is a 2023 novel written by Nigerian-British writer Chikodili Emelumadu and published by Wildfire in 2023. [1] [2] The novel focuses of Treasure, who is married to a spirit and Ozoemena, who is initiated into the Leopard Society which gives her a shamanistic connection with the Igbo goddess, Idemili.
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( CamGEL [n 1]) is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002 and has been cited more than 8,000 times.