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111Serbo-Croatian phonology — Serbo Croatian is a South Slavic language with four very similar national standards. This article deals exclusively with the Eastern Herzegovinian Neo Shtokavian dialect, the basis for the official standard of Yugoslavia and its present day forms …
112T–V distinction — In sociolinguistics, a T–V distinction is a contrast, within one language, between second person pronouns that are specialized for varying levels of politeness, social distance, courtesy, familiarity, or insult toward the addressee. Contents 1… …
113Misha (disambiguation) — Misha is a diminutive of the Russian name Михаил (Mikhail). A, hypocoristic of Michael, its English language equivalent would be Mike. Non Russian usages often have it as a female name, and sometimes as Mischa. Contents 1 People 2 Fictional… …
114Burna-Buriash II — Burna Buriaš II King of Babylon Reverse of clay cuneiform tablet, EA 9, letter from Burna Buriaš II to Nibḫurrereya (Tutankhamun?) from Room 55 of the British Museum Reig …
115Nia effect — The Nia effect is consumer behavior effect, used in branding and states that consumers prefer shortened brand names over long ones and also tend to trim long brand names into short ones themselves. Contents 1 Derivation 2 In marketing 3 In… …
116Óengus I — For the 9th century king of Picts, see Óengus II. Óengus mac Fergusa King of the Picts The figure of the Old Testament King David shown killing a lion on the St …
117Bertil — m Scandinavian: from a Germanic pet form of various compound names containing the first element berht bright, famous, with the hypocoristic suffix il. The Blessed Bertilo (d. c.878) was an abbot of St Benignus at Dijon in Burgundy, who was… …
118Careen — f English: of recent origin and uncertain derivation. Its first appearance seems to have been in Margaret Mitchell s novel Gone with the Wind (1936), where it is borne by one of the sisters of Scarlett O Hara (the other being Sue Ellen). The name …
119Danny — m English: pet form of DANIEL (SEE Daniel), with the hypocoristic suffix y …
120Dickie — m English: pet form of DICK (SEE Dick), with the originally Scottish and northern English hypocoristic suffix ie. This has more or less completely replaced the medieval diminutive Dickon, with the Old French suffix on …
