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		Attention This section is devoted to English-to-English resources. For resources combining English with other languages, see the multilingual section and the page devoted to the other language!				Contents   Adressing in English American - British differences English irregular verbs     Files on other pages: · 100 most common English words : see German, Spanish, Portuguese · English verbs into German: see German · Irregular English verbs into German: see German · Irregular English verbs into Spanish: see Spanish · Jamaican Rasta Patois - Russian elementary dictionary : see Russian
		? cards 3 kB				Addressing in English © by Paul Rädle Various UK and US forms of address and abbreviations. Forms that appear preceded by "Your" can be used with "Her"/"His" when not addressing directly. Sample:   senator (US) --- Your Honor
		? cards 22 kB				American - British differences © by Rafael Barranco-Droege Usage and pronunciation differences between American and British English, with phonetic transcriptions where necessary. Topics include: Misc, Basic words, Clothing, Food, Furniture, Jobs, Objects, Places, People, Transport. Notes: A "false friend" (ff) has a different meaning in the other dialect. A polysemic word (polys.) has a further meaning it does not bear in the other dialect. To view these files properly, the following phonetic fonts must be installed on your system: SILManuscript IPA93 and SILSophia IPA93, available from SIL (free). Please consider the following as well: - These files were saved with old VTrain 2.0, which did not support Rich Text and hence accepted only one font per flashcard (side). Since the font used contains no question marks (etc.), the have been represented by a combination of diacritical marks. - Since these fonts contain characters under ASCII locations 127-160 and 173, they may produce certain errors in Windows applications. This is not a fault of VTrain or other programs, but of the fonts. Anyway, you are advised to save your <vok> file very often when you edit it in the Deck Edition mode (shortcut: CTRL + S). Sample:   car [ff] --- railway carriage / van automobile --- car [ff]
		220 cards 151 kB				English irregular verbs © by Rafael Barranco-Droege This is a very comprehensive list of English irregular verbs (both British and American forms). We have omitted composite verbs such as behold, countersink, gainsay, inlay, mis-, over-, partake, re-, sublet, type-, un-, under-, up- that follow the same patterns as their root verbs -- but excepting ambiguous cases: e.g. belay, forbear, input and overlie were included in this list. We have also omitted all modal and auxiliary verbs: can, could, may, might, must, ought to, shall, should, will, would. Sample:   lie (on surface) --- lie (on surface), lay, lain lie (to say a lie) --- lie (to say a lie), lied, lied
		33 cards 29 kB				IBM-PC English keyboard signs compiled by Henzer Guo, released as Public Domain This file contains a list of non-alphabetical characters present on English keyboards, along with their names.
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