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  2. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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    The main dictionary became the flagship title as the brand grew into a family of various dictionaries, a dictionary-thesaurus combination, and a usage guide. History [ edit ] James Parton (1912–2001) was a grandson of the English-born American biographer James Parton (1822–1891).

  3. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary now included 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering global English-speaking regions and 2500 new words and meanings from Oxford Dictionaries and Oxford English Corpus. As previously, the vocabulary included entries in general English from 1700 to the present day and in earlier major literary works.

  4. Garcilaso de la Vega (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Garcilaso de la Vega, KOS (c. 1501 – 14 October 1536) was a Spanish soldier and poet. Although not the first or the only one to do so, he was the most influential poet to introduce Italian Renaissance verse forms, poetic techniques, and themes to Spain.

  5. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...

  6. Morphological dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Morphological dictionary. In the fields of computational linguistics and applied linguistics, a morphological dictionary is a linguistic resource that contains correspondences between surface form and lexical forms of words. Surface forms of words are those found in natural language text.

  7. PDF - Wikipedia

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    HTML Form format HTML 4.01 Specification since PDF 1.5; HTML 2.0 since 1.2 Forms Data Format (FDF) based on PDF, uses the same syntax and has essentially the same file structure, but is much simpler than PDF since the body of an FDF document consists of only one required object. Forms Data Format is defined in the PDF specification (since PDF 1.2).

  8. When in Rome, do as the Romans do - Wikipedia

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    Background Saint Monica and her son, Saint Augustine, discovered that Saturday was observed as a fast day in Rome, where they planned to visit. However, it was not a fast day where they lived in Milan. They consulted Saint Ambrose who said "When I am here (in Milan) I do not fast on Saturday, when in Rome I do fast on Saturday". That reply is said to have brought about the saying "When in Rome ...

  9. John de Taxster - Wikipedia

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    John de Taxster, Taxter, or Tayster (died c. 1265), sometimes erroneously called Taxston, was a 13th-century English chronicler and monk at Bury St Edmunds Abbey.Nothing is known of his life apart from what is reported in or understood from his work on the 13th and 14th-century Bury Chronicle.