coinages
71RAS syndrome — stands for Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome, and refers to the use of one of the words that make up an initialism or acronym as well as the abbreviation itself, thus in effect repeating that word. It is itself a humorous example of a redundant …
72Roman Republican coinage — Coinage came late to the Roman Republic compared with the rest of the Mediterranean, especially Greece and Asia Minor where coins were invented in the 7th century BC. The currency of central Italy was influenced by its natural resources, with… …
73Cheese-eating surrender monkeys — sometimes shortened to surrender monkeys , is a derogatory description of French people that was coined in 1995 by a writer of the television series The Simpsons. The phrase has since entered two Oxford quotation dictionaries. After being popula …
74Thomas Urquhart — Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty (or Urchard, 1611 c. 1660) was a Scottish writer and translator, most famous for his translation of Rabelais.LifeUrquhart was born to an old landholding family in Cromarty in northern Scotland. At the age of eleven …
75Medieval Latin — Carmina Cantabrigiensia, Medieval Latin manuscript Spoken in Numerous small states Region …
76Meta — This article is about the word or prefix Meta. For other uses, see Meta (disambiguation). For information on the wiki based web site for the coordination of all the Wikimedia Foundation projects, see Wikipedia:Meta. Meta (from Greek: μετά = after …
77Plenken — is a German typographical term for the insertion of inappropriate spaces before a punctuation mark.Its counterpart is Klempen, the incorrect omission of a space after punctuation marks.Etymology Plenken is derived as a borrowed word from the… …
78Anglish — is a form of constrained writing in English in which words with Greek, Latin, and Romance roots are replaced by Germanic ones. (See etymology.)Sometimes this is achieved by use of synonyms and sometimes by neologisms. When merely consisting of… …
79Myanma kyat — Infobox Currency currency name in local = my icon image 1 = 1 Kyat.jpg image title 1 = 1 kyat (1990) image 2 = image title 2 = 1000 kyat (2004) iso code = MMK using countries = BIR inflation rate = 39.5% inflation source date =… …
80Qutuz — Saif ad Din Qutuz, also spelled Kutuz, (Arabic: سيف الدين قطز; epithet: al Malik al Muzaffar Saif ad Din Qutuz (Arabic: الملك المظفر سيف الدين قطز) (Born November 2, died October 24, 1260) was the third[1] of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt in the… …
