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English to French, Italian, German & Spanish Dictionary List of misquotations - Wikiquote This page consists of things that many people think are correct quotations but are actually incorrect. This does not include quotations that were actually blunders by the people who said them (see, e.g., Wikipedia:Political gaffe). See also: Quotations on misquotation. Misquoted or misattributed[edit] "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. "All we want are the facts, ma'am." "All we know are the facts, ma'am." "That's right," said Billy Windsor. "Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith. Unsourced, unverified, or other best guesses[edit] These may not necessarily be misquotations but catchphrases from popular culture, whose formation required slight alterations to put them into context and make them memorable. "Whenever I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my revolver." "A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke." People[edit]
MDBG English to Chinese dictionary Examples and Help Example queries: hello, nihao, ni3hao3, 你好, rest*, zei*, *zei*, *茶, 英*公司, chinese *文, "to rest", bill -gates Pinyin words should be entered without spaces, either with or without tone numbers: ni3hao3 or nihao. The asterisk character * can be used as a wildcard to match zero or more characters: rest* will match any word starting with rest, such as restaurant or restrain*文 will match any word ending with 文, such as 中文 or 英文b*g will match any word starting with b and ending with g, such as big or boring*中国* will match any word containing 中国, such as 传统中国医药 or 中国人民 Double quotes " " can be used to group search terms together: "to rest" will only match entries where to and rest directly follow eachother The minus symbol - can be used to find entries without a certain search term: bill -gates will only match entries matching bill but without gates To match only Chinese characters, Mandarin pinyin or English definition, use: c:chinese p:pinyin e:english:
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Online Etymology Dictionary Urban Dictionary, February 11: get off my planet Etymological dictionary This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology. Etymological dictionaries are the product of research in historical linguistics.
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