Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively.Usually, this is the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in various European countries between 1582 and 1923.. In England, Wales, Ireland and Britain's American colonies, there were two calendar changes, both in 1752.

The dictionary was conceived in 1968 as a replacement for the Bosworth–Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, which had been compiled at a time when both the study of the Old English language and lexicographical techniques were less advanced. From the outset, the editors were interested in the potential application of computer technology to the task of compiling the dictionary, and …

Arabic is a Semitic language and English is an Indo-European language.The following words have been acquired either directly from Arabic or else indirectly by passing from Arabic into other languages and then into English. Most entered one or more of the Romance languages, before entering English.. To qualify for this list, a word must be reported in etymology dictionaries as …

Origins. The date of the poem is impossible to determine, but scholarly consensus considers it to be older than the Exeter Book itself, which dates from the late 10th century. The inclusion of a number of Norse-influenced words, such as the compound hrimceald (ice-cold, from the Old Norse word hrimkaldr), and some unusual spelling forms, has encouraged others to date the …

Letter frequency is the number of times letters of the alphabet appear on average in written language.Letter frequency analysis dates back to the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi (c. 801–873 AD), who formally developed the method to break ciphers.Letter frequency analysis gained importance in Europe with the development of movable type in 1450 AD, where one must …

In software engineering, a plain old Java object (POJO) is an ordinary Java object, not bound by any special restriction.The term was coined by Martin Fowler, Rebecca Parsons and Josh MacKenzie in September 2000: "We wondered why people were so against using regular objects in their systems and concluded that it was because simple objects lacked a fancy name.

Language: English: Released: 1953 by Burl Ives on Brunswick Records: Genre: Children's rhyme, nonsense song: Songwriter(s) Rose Bonne and Alan Mills "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" (alternatively "There Was an Old Lady", "I …

The Old Palace (German: Altes Schloss) is a former castle located on the Schillerplatz in Stuttgart, Germany.The castle, originally a water castle dating back to the 10th century, was the residence of the Counts and later some Dukes of Württemberg and today is the home of the Landesmuseum Württemberg.The castle church (German: Schloßkirche) still functions as a …

Peoples, culture, and language. English, an adjective for something of, from, or related to England. English national identity, an identity and common culture; English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England; English languages (disambiguation) English studies, the study of English language and literature; English, an …

North American English (NAmE, NAE) is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada. Because of their related histories and cultures, [3] plus the similarities between the pronunciations (accents), vocabulary, and grammar of American English and Canadian English , the two spoken varieties are often grouped together under a …