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Fröken Chic
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1959 film by Hasse Ekman
Fröken Chic (English: Miss Chic) is a 1959 Swedish comedy film, directed by Hasse Ekman. Plot summary The talent agent Buster Carell is near bankruptcy when his biggest talent, a singing lumberjack, runs off with the company funds. While watching a TV quiz show, he discovers Isabella Linder, who sings a little song aft...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
The 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix (officially the XVII Marlboro Magyar Nagydij) was a Formula One motor race held at Hungaroring on 19 August 2001. It was the 13th race of the 2001 FIA Formula One World Championship and the 16th edition of the event as part of the series. Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher won the 77-lap ra...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
he tactically delayed the McLaren driver from lap 12 to provide his teammate Michael Schumacher with a significant lead over the rest of the field. Schumacher only lost the lead during the pit stop phases, maintaining the lead for the majority of the Grand Prix to take his seventh victory of the season and the 51st of ...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
many in the Formula One community for his title victory and it was headline news in Germany and Italy. Barrichello's second-place finish helped Ferrari win the Constructors' Championship for the third consecutive season and the 11th time overall. McLaren were 13 points ahead of Williams in third while Sauber moved one ...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
in Mogyoród, Budapest on 19 August. The Hungaroring has been likened to the Circuit de Monaco because it is narrow, making overtaking difficult. The circuit was bumpy and dusty and it did not provide a major advantage to cars installed with powerful engines. Before the race Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher led the Dri...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
points, 58 points ahead of McLaren. Williams were third with 56 points; Sauber with 19 points and British American Racing (BAR) with 16 points contended for fourth place. A maximum of 40 points were available for the final four races, which meant Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher could still win the title. Michael Schumach...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
victory, putting him equal with four-time World Champion Alain Prost and join Prost and Juan Manuel Fangio as the third driver to win four or more titles. He said the championship was not in his mindset in Hungary and was looking forward to the race, "I am excited about the possibility of becoming champion a fourth tim...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
was within four points of Michael Schumacher entering the Monaco Grand Prix; he finished fifth after failing to move off the starting grid due to a computer glitch. Thereafter, mechanical attrition and one accident meant Coulthard scored six points in the next five races and fell 37 points behind Schumacher. There were...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
season. Alesi's Prost AP04 was subsequently taken over by Heinz-Harald Frentzen—whom Jordan sacked before the preceding German Grand Prix—until the conclusion of the 2001 championship. Both drivers were allowed to familiarise themselves with their new cars in the week before the race. Frentzen undertook a shakedown tes...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
race, two each on Friday and Saturday. The Friday morning and afternoon sessions each lasted an hour; the third and fourth sessions, on Saturday morning, lasted 45 minutes each. Friday's two practice sessions were held in hot and clear weather. In the first practice session, Michael Schumacher was fastest with a lap of...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
ten drivers. Alesi was restricted to four timed laps because he skidded into a gravel trap at turn 13. Ralf Schumacher avoided curtailing his session after a spin into the turn one gravel trap and reversing out of it. Coulthard understeered into the turn 12 chicane gravel trap and pushed the McLaren's undertray through...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
smoothly through turn 12. It continued to be hot and humid for the two practice sessions on Saturday morning. Michael Schumacher set the third practice session's fastest lap of 1 minute, 15.466 seconds. His teammate Barrichello remained in second. The two McLaren cars of Häkkinen and Coulthard were third and fourth. He...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
quickest in the final practice session to prevent Ferrari from leading every session with a 1-minute, 15.266 seconds lap. Michael Schumacher could not go faster after going wide onto the grass exiting turn six and later spun off the track at turn 12. He remained in second in front of his teammate Barrichello in third a...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
afternoon's one hour qualifying session saw each driver limited to twelve laps, with the starting order decided by their fastest laps. During this session the 107% rule was in effect, requiring each driver to remain within 107 per cent of the fastest lap time to qualify for the race. It remained hot and clear with the ...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
sensor. Qualifying classification Warm-up A half an hour warm-up session took place on Sunday morning in dry and hot weather. All drivers fine-tuned their race set-ups against the weather of the time, and set laps in their spare cars. While he was briefly delayed by a battery fault that affected his car's gear change m...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
to provide drivers with a better chance of maintaining on-track position. While on a reconnaissance lap, Michael Schumacher locked his rear brakes and ran into the turn 12 gravel trap en route to the grid. The Ferrari mechanics removed most of the stones from his car and replaced the left-hand side turning vane as a pr...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
16th by the conclusion of the first lap, as Frentzen fell four positions over the same distance. At the end of the first lap, Michael Schumacher led his teammate Barrichello by 1.3 seconds with Coulthard a further half a second behind in third. Ralf Schumacher was fourth, Trulli fifth and Häkkinen sixth. As the top thr...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
He took the penalty on the following lap. Trulli in fifth slowed Häkkinen, Heidfeld, Montoya and Heidfeld from the eighth lap as Hakkinen attempted an unsuccessful overtake on Trulli. On lap nine, Burti became the Grand Prix's second retirement after he spun into a gravel trap at turn 14 on heavily blistered tyres redu...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
later on. That lap, Bernoldi locked his rear brakes in him catching Alonso and retired by spinning into a gravel trap at turn four. On lap 13, Button passed Marques to retake 18th. By his first pit stop of the race at the conclusion of the 28th lap, Michael Schumacher extended his lead to 12.8 seconds and broke Nigel M...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
to drive in clear air and given an opportunity to close up to Michael Schumacher. Further back, Button overtook Alonso for 17th on lap 33. Two more retirements occurred during this stage of the Grand Prix: on lap 35, Button lost control of the rear of the rear of his Benetton car through the final corner, and stopped i...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
one when his rear brakes failed on the 38th lap. As Coulthard lowered the gap to Michael Schumacher to 11 seconds, he could not get closer to the Ferrari driver who made a second pit stop on lap 52. Barrichello made his second pit stop on the next lap, and he rejoined in third, behind his teammate Michael Schumacher. C...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
after one exploratory lap. Upfront, Michael Schumacher slowed and Barrichello held off Coulthard to enable his teammate to take his seventh victory of the season, and the 51st of his career in a time of 1 hour, 41 minutes and 49.675 seconds at an average speed of , equalling Prost's all-time wins record. He became the ...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
in second to win the third Constructors' Championship in a row for Ferrari and its 11th overall. Coulthard followed in third, with Ralf Schumacher fourth, Häkkinen fifth and Heidfeld sixth. The final classified finishers were Räikkönen, Montoya, Villenueve, Alesi, de la Rosa and Verstappen. The attrition rate was high ...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
do more than that." Michael Schumacher received praise for his fourth World Drivers' Championship and it was headline news in Germany and Italy. He was officially congratulated by Gerhard Schröder, the chancellor of Germany, who wrote a letter to Schumacher saying that his driving ability brought excitement to the spor...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
dominant team and Schumacher its best driver in the long-term. Mansell echoed Button's belief, adding, "If Ferrari maintain the impetus they currently have and given the personnel... then I can't see anyone stopping them for the next few years, not unless someone comes up with the perfect package." Around 2,000 people ...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
that I could start to make inroads on Ralf Schumacher, who by then was about 30 seconds ahead." Irvine said he accepted responsibility for his first lap accident that ended his running, "I made a big charge at the beginning but maybe I carried too much into the corner and paid the price. With so few races left and only...
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2001 Hungarian Grand Prix
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Formula One motor race held in 2001
points behind Coulthard. Ralf Schumacher in fourth was a further two points behind Barrichello. With 21 points, Häkkinen was fifth. Ferrari won the Constructors' Championship with 140 points. McLaren in second (72 points) were 13 points ahead of Williams in third. Sauber were fourth with 20 points and the team increase...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of more than 19.4 million Canadians, or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder of the population were native speakers of Canadian French (20.8%) or othe...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
English contains major elements of both British English and American English, as well as many uniquely Canadian characteristics. While, broadly speaking, Canadian English tends to be closest to American English in terms of linguistic distance, the precise influence of American English, British English and other sources...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Anglocentric attitude that would be prevalent in Canada for the next hundred years when he referred to the language as "a corrupt dialect", in comparison with what he considered the proper English spoken by immigrants from Britain. Canadian English is the product of five waves of immigration and settlement over a perio...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
English. Canadian English has been developing features of its own since the early 19th century. The second wave from Britain and Ireland was encouraged to settle in Canada after the War of 1812 by the governors of Canada, who were worried about American dominance and influence among its citizens. Further waves of immig...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
started to influence European languages used in Canada even before widespread settlement took place, and the French of Lower Canada provided vocabulary, with words such as toque and portage, to the English of Upper Canada. While the process of the making of Canadian English—its documentation and codification—goes back ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
English was seen as a "given", generally accepted default variety, while before such statements were usually "balanced" by doubts. Historical linguistics Studies on earlier forms of English in Canada are rare, yet connections with other work to historical linguistics can be forged. An overview of diachronic work on Can...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Historical Principles offered real-time historical data through its quotations. Recently, historical linguists have started to study earlier Canadian English with historical linguistic data. DCHP-1 is now available in open access. Most notably, Dollinger (2008) pioneered the historical corpus linguistic approach for En...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
the 19th and early 20th centuries, Canadian dainty was marked by the use of some features of British English pronunciation, resulting in an accent similar to the Mid-Atlantic accent known in the United States. This accent faded in prominence following World War II, when it became stigmatized as pretentious, and is now ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
are universal. (But both Canadian and British English use balloted and profiting.) In other cases, Canadian and American usage differs from British spelling, such as in the case of nouns like curb, tire, and aluminum, which in British English are spelled kerb, tyre, and aluminium. Canadian spelling conventions can be p...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
(hence, "Canadian Tire") and American terminology for automobiles and their parts (for example, truck instead of lorry, gasoline instead of petrol, trunk instead of boot). Canada's political history has also had an influence on Canadian spelling. Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, once advised the Govern...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Canadianisms on Historical Principles (DCHP) was published and completed the first edition of Gage's Dictionary of Canadian English Series. The DCHP documents the historical development of Canadian English words that can be classified as "Canadianisms". It therefore includes words such as mukluk, Canuck, and bluff, but...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Nelson around 2003. The latest editions were published in 2009 by HarperCollins. On 17 March 2017 a second edition of DCHP, the online Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles 2 (DCHP-2), was published. DCHP-2 incorporates the c. 10 000 lexemes from DCHP-1 and adds c. 1 300 novel meanings or 1 002 lexemes to...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Dictionary. A second edition, retitled The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, was published in 2004. Just as the older dictionaries it includes uniquely Canadian words and words borrowed from other languages, and surveyed spellings, such as whether colour or color was the more popular choice in common use. Paperback and conci...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
often compared to the very similar and largely overlapping "General American" accent, an accent widely spoken throughout the United States and perceived there as being relatively lacking in any noticeable regional features. The provinces east of Ontario show the largest dialect diversity. Northern Canada is, according ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
on the Prairies, with periphery areas with more variable patterns including the metropolitan areas of Vancouver and Toronto. This dialect forms a dialect continuum with the far Western U.S. English, however it is sharply differentiated from the Inland Northern U.S. English of the central and eastern Great Lakes region....
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
class speaker from a rural setting may sound like a StCE speaker, while, given Chambers' definition, such person, because of the rural provenance, would not be included in the accepted definition (see the previous section). The Atlas of North American English, while being the best source for U.S. regional variation, is...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
dialect zones. Dollinger and Clarke distinguish between: West (B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba; with B.C. a sub-zone on the lexical level) Ontario (with Northwestern Ontario a transition zone with the West) Quebec (concerning the c. 500 000 Anglophone speakers in the province, not the francophone speakers of Engl...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
, but not as rounded as in the Prairies where there are strong Scandinavian, Slavic and German influences. Ontario Canadian raising is quite strong throughout the province of Ontario, except within the Ottawa Valley. The Canadian Shift is also a common vowel shift found in Ontario. The retraction of was found to be mor...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
speak a dialect which is influenced by the Inland Northern American English dialect, though there are minor differences such as Canadian raising (e.g. "ice" vs "my"). Also, the vowel of "bag" sounds closer to "vague" or "egg"; "right" sounds like "rate"; and the "ah" vowel in "can't" is drawn out, sounding like "kee-an...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
intervocalic and to alveolar tap between vowels, as well as pronouncing it as a glottal stop , is less common in the Maritimes. Therefore, battery is pronounced instead of . Especially among the older generation, and are not merged; that is, the beginning sound of why, white, and which is different from that of witch, ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
vowel pronunciation, morphology, syntax, and preservation of archaic adverbial-intensifiers. The dialect can vary markedly from community to community, as well as from region to region, reflecting ethnic origin as well as a past in which there were few roads and many communities, and fishing villages in particular rema...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
from southern Canadian English. Grammar There are a handful of syntactical practices unique to Canadian English. When writing, Canadians may start a sentence with As well, in the sense of "in addition"; this construction is a Canadianism. Unlike British English, North American English strongly prefers have to have got ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Canadian English speakers permit (and often use) a transitive form for some past participles where only an intransitive form is permitted in most other dialects. Examples include: "finished something" (rather than "finished with something"), "done something" (rather than "done with something"), "graduated university" (...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
seldom (if ever) found elsewhere. A good resource for these and other words is the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, which is currently being revised at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Canadian public appears to take interest in unique "Canadianisms": words that...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language. Oxford University Press. As a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, Canada shares many items of institutional terminology and professional designations with the countries of the former British Empire – for example, constable, for a police officer of the lowest rank, and charte...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
a university. It may also refer to a CEGEP in Quebec. In Canada, college student might denote someone obtaining a diploma in business management (this would be an associate degree in the United States); while university student is the term for someone earning a bachelor's degree. For that reason, going to college in Ca...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
usage may depend on the region or even the individual institution. Successive years of school are usually referred to as grade one, grade two, and so on. In Quebec, the speaker (if Francophone) will often say primary one, primary two (a direct translation from the French), and so on; while Anglophones will say grade on...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
"Kindergarten", with the exception of Nova Scotia, where it is called "grade primary". In the U.S., the four years of high school are termed the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years (terms also used for college years); in Canada, the specific levels are used instead (i.e., "grade nine"). As for higher educatio...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
to graduate; John is in his second year at McMaster. The "first year", "third year" designation also applies to Canadian law school students, as opposed to the common American usage of "1L", "2L" and "3L". Canadian students use the term marks (more common in England) or grades (more common in the US) to refer to their ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
metric equivalent A4 size of 210 mm × 297 mm. Beer cans are 355 mL (12 US oz), while beer bottles are typically 341 mL (12 Imperial oz). Transportation Although Canadian lexicon features both railway and railroad, railway is the usual term in naming (witness Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway), thou...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
example, Trans-Canada Highway), expressway (Central Canada, as in the Gardiner Expressway) and freeway (Sherwood Park Freeway, Edmonton) are often used to describe various high speed roads with varying levels of access control. Generally, but not exclusively, highway refers to any provincially funded road regardless of...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
hung Parliament. To table a document in Canada is to introduce or present it (as in Britain), whereas in the U.S. it means to postpone consideration until a later date, often indefinitely. In Canada, a committee is struck, whereas in the U.S. committees are appointed, formed, or created, etc. Several political terms ar...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
into disuse. The title is still used for the leader of a rural municipality in Saskatchewan, parts of Alberta, and Manitoba. The term Tory, used in Britain with a similar meaning, denotes a supporter of the present-day federal Conservative Party of Canada, the historic federal or provincial Progressive Conservative Par...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
is not used in Canada, where they are called United Empire Loyalists, or simply Loyalists. Members of the Liberal Party of Canada or a provincial Liberal party are sometimes referred to as Grits. Historically, the term comes from the phrase Clear Grit, used in Victorian times in Canada to denote an object of quality or...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
the Quebec provincial Action démocratique du Québec as Adéquistes. The term "Socred" is no longer common due to its namesake party's decline, but referred to members of the Social Credit Party, and was particularly common in British Columbia. It was not used for Social Credit members from Quebec, nor generally used for...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
are termed "Members of Parliament", and are referred to as "Jennifer Jones, MP" during their term of office only. Senators, and members of the Privy Council are styled "The Honourable" for life, and the Prime Minister of Canada is styled "The Right Honourable" for life, as is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
are called Members of the House of Assembly (MHAs). Law Lawyers in all parts of Canada, except Quebec, which has its own civil law system, are called "barristers and solicitors" because any lawyer licensed in any of the common law provinces and territories must pass bar exams for, and is permitted to engage in, both ty...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
any personal representative. Canadian lawyers generally do not refer to themselves as "attorneys", a term that is common in the United States. The equivalent of an American district attorney, meaning the barrister representing the state in criminal proceedings, is called a crown attorney (in Ontario), crown counsel (in...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
solicitor, respectively. It is not uncommon, however, for English-speaking advocates in Quebec to refer to themselves in English as "barrister(s) and solicitor(s)", as most advocates chiefly perform what would traditionally be known as "solicitor's work", while only a minority of advocates actually appear in court. In ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
general). Despite the conceptual distinction between barrister and solicitor, Canadian court documents would contain a phrase such as "John Smith, solicitor for the Plaintiff" even though "John Smith" may well himself be the barrister who argues the case in court. In a letter introducing him/herself to an opposing lawy...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
superior courts, which exist at the provincial and territorial levels, are traditionally addressed as "My Lord" or "My Lady", however there are some variances across certain jurisdictions, with some superior court judges preferring the titles "Mister Justice" or "Madam Justice" to "Lordship". Masters are addressed as "...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
"Your Worship". "Your Honour" is also the correct form of address for a Lieutenant Governor. A serious crime is called an indictable offence, while a less-serious crime is called a summary offence. The older words felony and misdemeanour, which are still used in the United States, are not used in Canada's current Crimi...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
or group visibly not one of the majority race in a given population. The term comes from the Canadian Employment Equity Act, which defines such people as "persons, other than Aboriginal people, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour." The term is used as a demographic category by Statistics Canada. The qu...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
is also used, to a lesser extent, in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, as well as in parts of New England. It generally refers to vacation houses in rural areas. fire hall: fire station, firehouse. height of land: a drainage divide. Originally American. parkade: a parking garage, especially in the West. washroom: the general...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
the depression in the ground left by a kekuli or pithouse. Groups of them are called "quiggly hole towns". Used in the BC Interior only. gas bar: a filling station (gas station) with a central island, having pumps under a fixed metal or concrete awning. booze can: an after-hours establishment where alcohol is served, o...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
and Ireland but less frequent or nonexistent in the United States are: tin (as in tin of tuna), for can, especially among older speakers. Among younger speakers, can is more common, with tin referring to a can which is wider than it is tall as in "a tin of sardines" as opposed to a "can of soup". cutlery, for silverwar...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
everyday usage. The following are more or less distinctively Canadian: ABM, bank machine: synonymous with ATM (which is also used, but much more widely than ABM by financial organizations in the country). BFI bin: Dumpster, after a prominent Canadian waste management company, BFI Canada (which was eventually bought out...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
the back, it is a term for any couch or sofa in Canada (and, to some extent, Northern California). Once a hallmark of CanE, chesterfield, as with settee and davenport, is now largely in decline among younger generations in the western and central regions. Couch is now the most common term; sofa is also used. dart: ciga...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
the U.S. dollar; loonie and toonie describe coinage specifically. (for example, "I have a dollar in pennies" versus "I have three loonies in my pocket"). pencil crayon: coloured pencil. pogie or pogey: term referring to unemployment insurance, which is now officially called Employment Insurance in Canada. Derived from ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
especially in Western Canada. Also used in Australian English and Irish English.Machismo . . . or masochism? , The Irish Times – Saturday 22 March 2008 Atlantic Canada prefers sneakers while central Canada (including Quebec and Ontario) prefers running shoes. touque (also spelled toque or tuque): a knitted winter hat. ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
is of French Canadian origin. bunnyhug: a hooded sweatshirt, with or without a zipper. Used mainly in Saskatchewan. Food and beverage Most Canadians as well as Americans in the Northwest, North Central, Prairie and Inland North prefer pop over soda to refer to a carbonated beverage (though neither term is dominant in B...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
more often a "Saskatchewan mickey" in western Canada): a bottle of hard liquor. (Despite the name, Texas mickeys are generally unavailable outside of Canada.) two-four: a case of 24 beers, also known as a case in Eastern Canada, or a flat in Western Canada (referencing that cans of beer are often sold in packages of si...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
cheese puffs. The name is a genericized trademark based on a brand of crunchy cheese snack sold in Canada. Kraft Dinner or "KD": for any packaged dry macaroni and cheese mix, even when it is not produced by Kraft. freezie: A frozen flavoured sugar water snack common worldwide, but known by this name exclusively in Cana...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
powdered disc sold in rolls; in Canada these tart candies are sold as "Rockets". Prairies (Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta) A strong Canadian raising exists in the prairie regions together with certain older usages such as chesterfield and front room also associated with the Maritimes. Aboriginal Canadians are a lar...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
use cottage. Informal speech A rubber in the U.S. and Canada is slang for a condom; however, in Canada it is sometimes (rarely except for Newfoundland and South Western Ontario) another term for an eraser (as it is in the United Kingdom and Ireland). The word bum can refer either to the buttocks (as in Britain), or, de...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
(commonly used in Atlantic Canada and among older people in Ontario and to the west) or ass, or mitiss (used in the Prairie Provinces, especially in northern and central Saskatchewan; probably originally a Cree loanword). Older Canadians may see "bum" as more polite than "butt", which before the 1980s was often conside...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
in the US, especially in the northern states). One of the most distinctive Canadian phrases is the spoken interrogation or tag eh. The only usage of eh exclusive to Canada, according to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, is for "ascertaining the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
New Zealand. Other uses of eh – for instance, in place of huh? or what? meaning "please repeat or say again" – are also found in parts of the British Isles and Australia. It is common in Northern/Central Ontario, the Maritimes and the Prairie provinces. The word eh is used quite frequently in the North Central dialect,...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
century and early 20th century it tended to refer to French-Canadians, while the only Canadian-built version of the popular World War I-era American Curtiss JN-4 Jenny training biplane aircraft, the JN-4C, got the "Canuck" nickname, 1,260 of which were built. The nickname Janey Canuck was used by Anglophone women's rig...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
so I biffed it across the room". Other Canadianisms The alphanumeric code appended to mail addresses (the equivalent of the similar British postcode and the all-numeric American ZIP code) is called a postal code. The term First Nations is often used in Canada to refer to what are called American Indians or Native Ameri...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
past few decades. It is now considered offensive to use the term Eskimo, but is still used commonly (without pejorative intent) by those born in the early-mid-20th century. "Going camping" still refers to staying in a tent in a campground or wilderness area, while "going out to camp" may refer to a summer cottage or ho...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
resort. In Northern Ontario, these second homes tend to be called "camps". In Western Canada, these second homes tend to be called "cabins". A "bunkie" is a secondary building at these second homes that are small enough to require no building permits and house extra guests visiting. One of the other distinctions betwee...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
countries, the latter more often used in other English-speaking nations. Drop the gloves: to begin a fight. A reference to a practice in hockey of removing gloves prior to fighting, and the idiom "throw down the gauntlet". Back east typically means 'Ontario or possibly Quebec' whereas Down East instead refers to the Ma...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
the time at home, while 58% declared it their mother language. English is the major language everywhere in Canada except Quebec, and most Canadians (85%) can speak English. While English is not the preferred language in Quebec, 36.1% of Québécois can speak English. Nationally, Francophones are five times more likely to...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
national identity is conflated with linguistic identity, and that in the case of "Canadian English", supposedly unique features of Canadian speakers, such as certain lexical terms such as muskeg are artificially exaggerated to distinguish Canadian speech primarily from that found in the United States. See also List of ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
. Barber, Katherine. "11 Favourite Regionalisms Within Canada", in David Vallechinsky and Amy Wallace (2005). The Book of Lists, Canadian Edition. Knopf. . Boberg, Charles (2005). "The North American Regional Vocabulary Survey: Renewing the study of lexical variation in North American English." American Speech 80/1. Du...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
(2008). Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English (e-book). . Peters, Pam (2004). The Cambridge Guide to English Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . Canadian Raising: O'Grady and Dobrovolsky, Contemporary Linguistic Analysis: An Introduction, 3rd ed., pp. 67–68. Canadian ...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Canadian newspaper and magazine style guides: J.A. McFarlane and Warren Clements, The Globe and Mail Style Book: A Guide to Language and Usage, 9th ed. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1998). The Canadian Press, The Canadian Press Stylebook, 13th ed. and its quick-reference companion CP Caps and Spelling, 16th ed. (both...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Some Canadian evidence", in Language Variation and Change, 7:209–228. Dollinger, Stefan (2015). The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology: History, Theory, Practice. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. The book's examples are exclusive taken from Canadian English and represent one of the more extensive collection...
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Canadian English
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dialect within the English language
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. . External links Termium Plus: the Government of Canada terminology and linguistic databank Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Words: Woe & Wonder Dave VE7CNV's Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling – comparisons of Canadian English, American English, British English, Fr...
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Yuri Ivashchenko
[ [ "Yuri Ivashchenko", "occupation", "Astronomer" ], [ "Yuri Ivashchenko", "instance of", "Human" ], [ "Yuri Ivashchenko", "country of citizenship", "Ukraine" ], [ "Yuri Ivashchenko", "place of birth", "Andrushivka" ] ]
Ukrainian astronomer
Yuri Ivashchenko (; born April 12, 1961) is a Ukrainian astronomer. Biography Yuri Ivashchenko was born in Andrushivka, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine on April 12, 1961, the day Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space. Therefore his parents decided to name him after Yuri Gagarin. His father was a jour...
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Yuri Ivashchenko
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Ukrainian astronomer
of astronomy. In 1983–1992 he worked in the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he received a degree of Candidate of Physico-mathematical Sciences. In 1992, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he left his academic position and joined an automobile dealer company in Kiev. In...
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Ameiva
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genus of reptiles
Ameiva, commonly called jungle-runners, is a genus of whiptail lizards that belongs to the family Teiidae. Geographic range Member species of the genus Ameiva are found in South America and Central America. They have also been spotted in the Caribbean Region as well.(West Indies) Usually, their major habitat is located...
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