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  2. Spanish practices - Wikipedia

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    Spanish practices. The terms Spanish practices or old Spanish customs are British expressions that refer to irregular or restrictive practices in workers' interests. Typically, these are arrangements that have been negotiated in the past between employers and unions. The issue arises because, in British law, a contract of employment consists of ...

  3. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English - Wikipedia

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE ...

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym. A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [ 2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one ...

  5. Steve Martin reveals what he said when asked to play ... - AOL

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    I was picked because I have gray hair and glasses.”. But it's both of their white hairs and black-rimmed glasses and welcoming smiles that fans really leaned into. However, Martin didn't want to ...

  6. Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Conch. Concha (lit.: " mollusk shell" or "inner ear") is an offensive word for a woman's vulva or vagina (i.e. something akin to English cunt) in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Mexico. In the rest of Latin America and Spain however, the word is only used with its literal meaning.

  7. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form. This list includes only homographs that are written precisely ...

  8. Lexical similarity - Wikipedia

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    Lexical similarity. In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. There are different ways to define the lexical similarity and the results ...

  9. Spanish as a second or foreign language - Wikipedia

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    United States. Spanish is taught in schools all over the United States as a second or foreign language. The global number of Spanish-speakers consists of approximately 559 million persons. [1] Objectives for Spanish-language education include preparing students to use the language for speaking, listening, reading and writing and to learn about ...