The result, due out Aug. 4 in print and electronic forms, is the Encarta World English Dictionary.
However you come down on these questions, the Encarta World English Dictionary is a lot of fun to browse.
It recently announced a multiproject deal with Microsoft that will include publishing the Encarta World English Dictionary as a book and CD-ROM in August.
Ms. Rowling's agent, Neil Blair, said that he negotiated directly with Little, Brown in the U.K. for world English rights rather than offering the title for auction.
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Newton's projected dictionary of what he called "World English" would acknowledge that an Australian might say he needed a dunny, while a British person wanted a loo and an American, a toilet.
In the staid, quiet world of English gardening, this was dynamite.
The number of specialist announcers on the World Service English language service will shrink and a new management team will work across distribution, channel management and commissioning.
Many people round the world speak English these days but if you really want to make a sale, speaking the local language can make all the difference.
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In this she was indeed a foremother to use a word of Ms Grundy's of the women who would soon, as readers, critics and novelists, contribute so much to the world of English literature.
There is something astringently Roman about the world of the English novelist Edward St.
The paper also tracked word usage through time (each year, for instance, 1% of the world's English-speaking population switches from "sneaked" to "snuck").
The NUJ said the BBC was planning around 30 compulsory redundancies, affecting areas including BBC Scotland, the Asian Network, the World Service and English regions.
Oxford was judged the best place in the world to study English, while Cambridge came second, ahead of eight US universities that took the rest of the places in the global top ten.
She had been married by arrangement to K.K., her first cousin, at seventeen, and had soon been eclipsed as he moved into the larger world of the Indian Civil Service, a world defined by English mores and manners.
The BBC has said shortwave broadcasts in English of World Service radio are being jammed in China.
The combination brings together two of the world's leading English language publishers, with highly complementary skills and strengths.
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Each year Oscar organisers try to identify the best movie around the world not in the English language.
Most of the non-English speaking world is literally locked out of the domain name system by reason of limitations in language.
She is a Singer, songwriter, clawhammer banjo player, and recording artist who tours the world performing in both English and Chinese.
Under Common Law (the basis for most of the English speaking world) we can write a contract to do pretty much anything.
Pundits from every corner of the English speaking world have been predicting the parade of horribles that surely await young William and nubile Kate.
However looking at movies, that really does seem to be something that Hollywood, at least in the English speaking world, has a lock on.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo insisted he would not swap the English 2008 world champion for Felipe Massa, who lost the title to Hamilton by a single point.
The first thing to note is that in the Common Law jurisdictions (largely, but not exclusively, the English speaking world) possession of such vileness is a strict liability offense.
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This already occurs elsewhere in the English speaking world.
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This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.
Likewise, the team says that Henry, who won a World Cup with France and scored 175 goals for Arsenal in the English Premier League, has a world-class pedigree that has helped sell tickets, attract new players and bring both the club and the league a level of credibility that few other players on the planet could provide.
The use of English around the world gives London an edge over other European centres.
Such arrangements are rare in the English-speaking world, but quite common elsewhere, particularly in East Asia.
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