"Mah-jongg" comes from a word for "sparrow" in this language
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Mah-Jongg - Heroin, "Granola," & More: Products That Became ...  Mah-jongg (spelled with one or two gs) is a game of Chinese origin in which players try to create ... Heroin, "Granola," & More: Products That Became Words.
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Mahjong tiles - Wikipedia  Mahjong tiles are tiles of Chinese origin that are used to play mahjong as well as mahjong .... as it commonly depicts a bird, is often referred as the sparrow ( - m qu). ... Honor tiles (, pinyin zpi, lit. word tiles) have neither rank nor suit but like .... Identifying a Mah-Jongg Variant at sloperama.com. ... Languages.
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What is the story behind the word "Mahjong"? - English Language ...  Jun 9, 2014 ... also spelled majiang, mah jongg, and numerous other variants, is a game ... mqu)meaning sparrowwhich is still the name most commonly used in ... I would dispute the idea that the name of the game only goes back to...
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What is the story behind the word "Mahjong"? - GuruLang  It boggles my mind that the word "Chess" has a vast amount of information regarding the ... mah jongg, and numerous other variants, is a game that originated in China. ... (pinyin: mqu)?meaning sparrow?which is still the name most commonly ... However, most Mandarin-speaking Chinese now call the game mjing (?
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Mahjong - Wikipedia  Mahjong also spelled majiang, mahjong, and numerous other variants, is a game that originated in China during the ... However, most Mandarin-speaking Chinese now call the game mjing (). In Northern Wu ... Also in 1920, Joseph Park Babcock published his book Rules of Mah-Jongg, also known as the "red book".
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Algonkian Words in American English: A Study in the Contact ... - JStor  Tammany, terrapin, tomahawk, totem, woodchuck, etc. ... WORDS OF ALGONKIAN ORIGIN IN AMERICAN ENGLISH. ... rivation as quick-hatch (from Cree kikwd'kes, or the cognate word in ... literally "big angular fruit," -both contain the Algonkian root ... language from which it was taken "a person of distinction, chief, elder...
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Etymologically Speaking...  Some of these are English, but some are French and German words from which ... which was a scented, golden apple first raised by and named after Matius, a friend of ..... From "thaler" -- a nickname for the silver coins that were minted from the ore .... Too much yellow bile and you saw the world through a "bilious" eye , and...
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crib - Kinderbett - Duolingo  'Krippe' means either 'nativity set' or 'day nursery' or 'feeding trough'. ... The English word manger is a very old word, and comes from french "manger", meaning .... "Kinderkrippe" on the other hand seems to mean "nursery", and does not refer...
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Free Flashcards about TOYS & GAMES - StudyStack  THIS RHYMING TERM REFERS TO BOTH A CHINESE GAMBLING GAME & A WESTERN CARD GAME, FANTAN. WHIST, BRIDGE, & EUCHRE ARE IN THE...
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Jabberwocky Word Definitions - Waxdog.Com  Brillig Carroll's Explanation: Bryllyg (derived from the verb to bryl or broil). ... The proper pronounciation for the word, slithy is slithy with a long i (such as in lithe). ... Mimsy Carroll's Explanation: Mimsy (whence mimserable and miserable.)...
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languagehat.com : SPILLIKINS, JACKSTRAWS, PICK-UP STICKS.  Mar 11, 2012 ... I ran across the word spillikins today (in Virginia Woolf, who spelled it ... that both words referred to the game my wife and I know as pick-up ... for jackstraws, you get redirected to the pick-up sticks page, with no ... March 12, 2012 at 5:27 am ... Pick-up-Sticks was a commercial name for the same game and...
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Free Flashcards about TOYS & GAMES - StudyStack  BASED ON AN ANCIENT GAME OF INDIA, THIS BOARD GAME IS PLAYED ON A ... THIS BIRD'S NAME CAN ALSO MEAN "TO SWINDLE" AND IT'S FOUND IN...
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Linda Park on Jeopardy Video Clue | IGN Boards - IGN.com  (Hello, I'm Linda Park. I play Hoshi, the linguistic expert on Enterprise.) In Chinese, each symbol represents a word; in Japanese, each symbol a syllable; in Korean, each symbol, this. Answer: What is a letter? Also, by a...
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Glossary of Slang and Peculiar Terms in Use in the AIF - Australian ...  This is followed by some additional information explaining the word and its context. ... perhaps a new coinage, based on 'jam tart', rhyming slang for 'sweetheart' (AND). .... gambling game with special cards and checks' and dates back to at least 1900. ... 'Dog' meaning 'an informer, a traitor' is of US origin, and in Australian...
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Next Entries - Dr. Goodword's Language Blog  Aug 8, 2008 ... For decades, my Italian-American family has used the word 'cashabung' to ... word slightly mispronounced (you don't find the combination NG at the end of many Italian words). ... that he thought the police would leave him alone because he was Amish. ... In English hoi polloi clearly means the masses.
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jeopardy/1561_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SCIENCE & NATURE | About one-millionth as bright as our sun, these small red ... GAMING | Hazard is a centuries-old game using these, which Einstein ... SCIENCE & NATURE | The name of this Alpine flower is German for "noble .... game played with 144 tiles comes from a Chinese word meaning "sparrows" | Mah jongg.
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jeopardy/3 at master  towski/jeopardy  GitHub  ... Micronesia comes from 2 Greek words, micro &amp; nesos, which mean this" .... 11-letter word for \"sleight of hand\" is from the French for \"light of hand\""...
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Words from African languages (including Afrikaans, which is an Indo ...  The following list is a work-in-progress. The full .... Malagasy (also a language, but an Austronesian one) .... bad-mouth (the verb: W African phrase like a Vai phrase) So. ... klipspringer (an antelope) ... rhebok/reebok and rhebuck (an antelope)
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Surprise! 27 Chinese Words Used in English That You Already Know  Feb 29, 2016 ... The name comes from a Chinese dialect called Amoy, spoken in ... 8. wok. A wok is a stir-fry pan used for cooking. The word comes from...
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Full text of "The Waverley pictorial dictionary" - Internet Archive  A sprig of common mallow, a familiar plant of the English roadside. mallow (mal' 6), n. ..... The pupils of Manchester Grammar School are called Mancunians, and old ...... In the sentence, " I have been there many times," the word is an adjective, ...... into the spirit of a Christmas party, and join with the other merry-making (adj.)...
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Some dictionaries give thump as a synonym of this dull sound that's ...  Jul 8, 2016 ... In dictionaries, this language is often abbreviated Skt. # Quiz # ... In dictionary entries, this word is followed by fish, saucer & Dutchman # Quiz #...