And, Guy, what does the change in that one word mean for British citizens?
The same word can mean entirely different things in different languages.
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Our nation's commitment to pursue economic policies that promote confidence and stability dates back to the very first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, who first made it clear that when our government gives its word we mean it.
Berber ghaitas (oboes) sound at times uncannily Celtic, which may be why the word came to mean bagpipe in Spanish.
How the word came to mean a sound thrashing is a mystery.
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Hemingway called it "death in the afternoon" and fight-goers think of it as la fiesta (a word that can mean feast, party or celebration).
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As such, this memorandum uses the word Shariah to mean all of Islamic jurisprudence, doctrine, and legal rulings, much as it is used in the vernacular by the typical Shariah-adherent Muslim.
This particular affaire (the French word fittingly can mean either scandal or straightforward business) last year forced the resignation of the finance minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who this year has been linked by Mrs Joly to the Elf affaire.
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When a professional service firm refuses to have any conversation off the clock or a company never leaves any money on the table in a negotiation, I always become concerned that they really do not understand that they are in the relationship business where referrals and word of mouth mean a lot.
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And today's last word in business might mean a little less business for gas station owners.
The State of the Union address, I mean, he mentioned - the word inner-city was mentioned once.
But maybe we should also come up with a new word that means what the old word friend used to mean.
You must remember that English is not entirely phonetic, so just because a student knows a word doesn't mean that they can understand it when it is said to them at native speed or pronounce it correctly.
Update: We received some clarification from the NCTA. Apparently in point number two, the word interface does not mean user interface, but at the same time the NCTA does believe that certain user interface screens should be required to be provided by the operator.
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Over the years, the word has also come to mean to greedily hog something.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word has now come to mean an expression of excited approval.
Just because you have an idea and a word processor doesn't mean that your idea should become a novel.
Yet in the same way that the word Waterloo has come to mean crushing and final defeat, so has Stalingrad become a symbol of incredible savagery and endurance, as the armies of the two greatest totalitarian regimes of the 20th Century fought to the death.
Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.
" According to the Los Angeles Times, the IAEA director, Mohamed ElBaradei, a former law professor at New York University, sallied forth to defend his organization's honor saying " the report used the word 'evidence' to mean 'proof' - words that he argued were interchangeable in a legal sense.
The crucial missing word could have been used to mean schools would not have been allowed to introduce selection procedures under Labour but those with selection rules would be allowed to keep them.
"It takes someone of his outsize personality and--I mean this in the best sense of the word--of his ego to pull all of it off as grandly and efficiently as he does, " says NBC's Tom Brokaw, a guest in June.
Indeed he has already been criticised for not using it now, but apparently feels caution and certainty are more important than the barbs of critics - particularly when, to many Americans, the word terrorism is misunderstood to only mean action by foreigners.
How strange that the very word "faith" has come to mean its exact opposite.
That's a word in the English language which could mean passionate.
" Verizon's CFO, Fran Shammo, might've just as well made those comments with his hands firmly cupped over his ears, as the firm's chief number cruncher told attendees at today's Goldman Sachs investor conference, "Unlimited is just a word, it doesn't really mean anything.
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This doesn't suggest that it's the last word on the subject, but it does mean it is worth discussing.
As in "Alice in Wonderland, " the word means what it's supposed to mean.
And by rest, I mean 1, 361 words in the 1, 571 word bill (or roughly 87%) addressed the taxation of S corporations.
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In this country when we use the word prosciutto, most people take it to mean Prosciutto di Parma or a near sibling.
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