Its English name and English-only teaching are not the only novelties.
And do we want the government or anyone else to dictate how we should spell our name in English?
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Emma's aid-worker friends, who smiled away her defiance and flamboyant clothes in the name of English eccentricity, were becoming increasingly concerned that she had crossed the line between idealism and partisanship.
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The new owl's English name comes from Mount Rinjani, Indonesia's second-highest volcano, located on Lombok.
Back on the riverfront, a computer consultant, who asked to be identified by his English name, Ben, gazes across the border.
Up until the eighteenth century, the lovely English name for trombone was sackbut, a word of Old French or possibly Spanish derivation.
He inquired if Blatand, my name, was English, and, resisting the urge to say yes, I admitted that I was from Copenhagen.
Cynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru, the Welsh title of the National Assembly, was originally displayed alongside its English name on the front of the Assembly building.
Chifundo James, whose name translates into English as Mercy, has been living in the same orphanage from which Madonna took David Banda in 2006.
Like many of my former students, he had chosen his English name for mysterious reasons, and now he taught in one of the poorest parts of Sichuan.
Individual leagues are also heavily sponsored, with Heineken being one of the biggest supporter of the Champions League, and Barclays being included in the official name of the English league, called the Barclays Premier League.
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Ten million was a whole lot of money in 1919 and when it attracted attention, Ponzi soon found himself with a five-year jail term and the dubious honor of adding his name to the English language for a type of fraud he hadn't even invented.
The Global Times and China Daily said China's railway ministry has ordered railway stations to replace their English station name signage with Pinyin.
"It's the name people here know who don't speak English, Queensboro Bridge is the name they learn, " Mr. Psm said.
Mrs Gelling worked for the English Place-Name Society, formally and informally, from 1946.
The fans reappropriated it and stuck the name on a 20-foot English flag.
One element that's received little attention so far is the legal requirement for a constituency to have one name, in either Welsh OR English.
He joked that he had read in the press that the English translation of his name was "embittered" - making him suited to be the last prime minister of a political era.
Wilkinson, who has 70 caps and 1, 032 international points to his name, joins the exodus of English players who have left the Premiership to join the cash-rich French league which includes Riki Flutey, James Haskell, Tom Palmer and Iain Balshaw.
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As the sort of people who are on a first-name basis with librarians, historians and English professors, historians are thrilled to hold a new book, to crack the binding and break it in like a new pair of shoes.
How many Americans can name the three ships that brought the first English to Jamestown?
Like Meirelles, "Last Stop 174" director Bruno Barreto also tried his hand at English-language productions after making a name for himself in Brazil.
Jens hopes the product's name will replace "e-mail" in English vernacular.
His name is Khalfi Mustapha and, in perfect American English, he explained that he learned about democracy while interning in the congressional office of Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.).
Unfortunately, the Czechs have been unable to agree on a one-word informal name for their country, whether in Czech or English, since the peaceful demise of Czechoslovakia 11 years ago (the other half became Slovakia, which works fine so long as it is not confused with Slovenia).
The spy center was lined with posters and English-language training manuals stamped with the name Amesys.
Wolff says he forgot the woman's name long ago but does recall that she spoke little English.
"I couldn't speak any English, " said Suzie, whose real name is being withheld to protect her identity.
Curiously, though, Venus does not even have a proper Chinese name--only a nearly meaningless phonetic transliteration from English.
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