For instance, considering the Geology corpus previously mentioned, the more frequent unigram was bacia ("basin" in English) with 2390 occurrences, while the more frequent bigram was matéria orgânica ("organic matter" in English) with only 430 occurrences.
Tellingly, the announcement was made almost simultaneously in Chinese and in English, a rare occurrence, and Chinese officials advised foreign governments beforehand that they were about to take a new stance on currency policy, according to an American official.
In the middle of this near tragic occurrence English student Liam Stacey decided to write a series of racist tweets directed at Muamba.
The epithet "first rate" is reserved, in English, for truly exceptional occurrences.
The next question is whether there is any pair of words in which the two phones are in minimal contrast (or opposition); that is, whether there is any context in English in which the occurrence of the one rather than the other has the effect of distinguishing two or more words (in the way that [ph] versus [b] distinguishes the so-called minimal pairs "pit" and "bit," "pan" and "ban," and so on).
The earliest known occurrence in English is in Byrhtferth's Enchiridion (a science text) of 1010 1012, where it was defined as 1/564 of a momentum (1½ minutes), and thus equal to 15/94 of a second.
A Venetian specimen of coin glass dated 1647 is known, but the principal occurrence is in English glass from about 1650 onward.
It was the first total eclipse that England had witnessed in seventy-two yeand, and the English preared for this mystical occurrence with an outbreak of traditional festivities, including health scares and traffic jams... Eclipses, in short, are even weirder than their reputation suggests... View Article Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993.
A multilingual taxonomy could map the terms across languages so a search in one language only (e.g., English) would be able to capture occurrences in all languages.
Still, Ms. was not invented by feminists: the Oxford English Dictionary finds its first printed occurrence in a 1952 letter-writing handbook.
