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    known by the name English as She Is Spoke, is a 19th-century book written by Pedro Carolino, with some editions crediting José da Fonseca as a co-author. It...
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  • by English as She Is Spoke, a 19th-century Portuguese–English phrase book regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations...
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  • Literal translation (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    1862 translation of the Bible into English English as She Is Spoke "LITERAL | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Archived...
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    My postillion has been struck by lightning (category English phrases)
    Portuguese-English phrasebook (possibly alluding to English as She Is Spoke): The phrase-book for Portuguese learners of English which included the often-quoted and bizarre...
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  • Solecism (category English grammar)
    construction of sentences. Catachresis Disputed English grammar English as She Is Spoke Fowler's Modern English Usage Malapropism Prescription and description...
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    United States as a world power. As of 2016[update], 400 million people spoke English as their first language, and 1.1 billion spoke it as a secondary language...
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  • classic book English as She Is Spoke is easy to understand (its idiomatic counterpart is English as It Is Spoken), but it deviates from English idiom in the...
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    writer is like an acrobat ... a Barthesean weaver of a wacky fabric, or someone who 'samples', like a certain kind of contemporary DJ". English as She Is Spoke...
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    Engrish (category Macaronic forms of English)
    the European Mega Drive version from Zero Wing Broken English Chinglish English as She Is Spoke "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this!", another internet...
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  • Humour in translation (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    early example was the nineteenth century Portuguese-English phrase book, English as She Is Spoke. Colloquial expressions and conventions in the source...
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  • Video Games portal English As She Is Spoke List of Internet phenomena Lolspeak The cake is a lie Original broken English translation as it appeared in the...
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  • by Anglo-Norman, developing into a phase known now as Middle English. The conquering Normans spoke a Romance langue d'oïl called Old Norman, which in...
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  • Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe, known in Japan as Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai (Japanese: 岸辺露伴は動かない, "Rohan Kishibe Does Not Move"), is a series of manga one-shots...
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    top levels of the English-speaking political and ecclesiastical hierarchies by Norman rulers who spoke a dialect of Old French known as Old Norman, which...
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    The New York Times. December 9, 2013. "English where she is spoke". The Economist. October 24, 2012. "English Proficiency Falters Among the French". The...
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  • Comma (redirect from Commas in English)
    sentence I spoke to the boys, Sam and Tom could mean either I spoke to the boys and Sam and Tom (I spoke to more than three people) or I spoke to the boys...
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    Chinglish (redirect from Chinese English)
    Code-switching in Hong Kong Non-native pronunciations of English Mute English English as she is spoke Westernised Chinese language Hinglish Jing, Xiao; Zuo...
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  • Guns (Cardiacs album) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    reviewed as favorably as Cardiacs' other albums Another notable lyrical source is the celebrated Portuguese to English phrasebook English as She Is Spoke, which...
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  • Marjie Lawrence (category English film actresses)
    Lawrence (21 January 1932 – 16 June 2010) was an English theatre, film and television actress. She spoke the first words uttered on ITV. Born in Birmingham...
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  • List of polyglots (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    She spoke Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, and English. Sergei Starostin (1953–2005), Russian linguist. He spoke Russian, Polish, English, German...
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  • African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class...
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  • French) as the language of the upper classes. This is regarded as marking the end of the Old English era, since during the subsequent period the English language...
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  • Übermensch (category Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
    made the first English translation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, rendering Übermensch as "Beyond-Man". In 1909, Thomas Common translated it as "Superman", following...
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  • with MSN in 2006, she said that the part had been difficult for her to play, stating that she felt "awkward" in the role; she later spoke highly of the experience...
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    Laila Al-Arian (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Laila Al-Arian is an American broadcast journalist for the Al Jazeera Media Network. She is the executive producer for the Al Jazeera English documentary...
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  • (RP): Queen Elizabeth II's accent changed slightly over the years but she still spoke a conservative form of RP until the end of her life. Margaret Thatcher...
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  • advocates bragged that its chief quality was that no Americans actually spoke it unless educated to do so". A similar accent that resulted from different...
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    book containing wrong translations in two of their sketches. English as She Is Spoke is a comic classic of unwittingly incompetent translation. The expression...
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    Tony (2000). Sussex as She Wus Spoke: A Guide to the Sussex Dialect. Seaford: SB Publications. ISBN 978-1-85770-209-5. English (Southern England) DoReCo...
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  • Ethnologue reports that, as of 2018, 30,000 Barbadians were native English speakers, while 260,000 natively spoke Bajan. Bajan is the Caribbean creole with...
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