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Today's British English spellings mostly follow Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), while many American English spellings follow Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ("ADEL", "Webster's Dictionary", 1828). Webster was a proponent of English spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic.
The term BDSM is a portmanteau of initialisms intended to encompass all of the following activities: Bondage and discipline ( B & D or B/D) Dominance and submission ( D & S or D/s) (including "master and slave" role-playing scenarios and ongoing relationship structures) Sadism and masochism ( S & M or S/M)
Italian Sign Language ( Italian: Lingua dei segni italiana, LIS) is the visual language used by deaf people in Italy. Deep analysis of it began in the 1980s, along the lines of William Stokoe 's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign Language dealt with its ...
Gloss (annotation) A gloss is a notation regarding the main text in a document. Shown is a parchment page from the Royal Library of Copenhagen. A gloss is a brief notation, especially a marginal or interlinear one, of the meaning of a word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the reader's language if that is different.
Jolanta Agnieszka Lapiak is a Polish-born Canadian artist, deaf activist, and creator of Handspeak, an online English-to-American Sign Language dictionary. Education and career [ edit ] Lapiak was born in 1972 in Wroclaw , Poland , and later moved to Canada, where she attended the Alberta School for the Deaf .
Emirati Sign Language ( Arabic: لغة الإشارة الإماراتية, romanized : Lughat al-Ishārah al-Imārātīyah is a unified sign language for the deaf community in the UAE. Emirati Sign Language has been developed by the Zayed Higher Organization for People of Determination and is the first deaf sign language for the United Arab ...
The Korean Sign Language Act ( 한국수화언어법; 韓國手話言語法; Hanguk Suhwa Eoneo Beop ), which was adopted on 3 February 2016 and came into force on 4 August 2016, established Korean Sign Language as an official language for the Deaf in South Korea equal in status with Korean. The law also stipulates that the national and local ...
The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ( LDOCE ), first published by Longman in 1978, [1] is an advanced learner's dictionary, providing definitions using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers understand meanings easily. It is available in four configurations: The dictionary is currently in its sixth edition.