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  2. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Enhancement of the language corresponds with the development of the CPython reference implementation. The mailing list python-dev is the primary forum for the language's development. Specific issues were originally discussed in the Roundup bug tracker hosted at by the foundation. [175] In 2022, all issues and discussions were migrated to GitHub ...

  3. Navy Federal Credit Union - Wikipedia

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    An increase in membership also led to three expansions: one at the credit union's San Diego location in 2010, where Navy Federal has 171 employees; one at the credit union's Pensacola location in 2015, where Navy Federal has 8,600 employees; [1] and one at the Winchester Operations location in 2019 where Navy Federal has 2,400 employees.

  4. English-language spelling reform - Wikipedia

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    Modern English spelling developed from about 1350 onwards, when—after three centuries of Norman French rule—English gradually became the official language of England again, although very different from before 1066, having incorporated many words of French origin (battle, beef, button, etc.).

  5. Language family - Wikipedia

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    A proto-language can be thought of as a mother language (not to be confused with a mother tongue [21]) being the root from which all languages in the family stem. The common ancestor of a language family is seldom known directly since most languages have a relatively short recorded history.

  6. Politics and the English Language - Wikipedia

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    Orwell chooses five passages of text which "illustrate various of the mental vices from which we now suffer." The samples are: by Harold Laski ("five negatives in 53 words"), Lancelot Hogben (mixed metaphors), an essay by Paul Goodman [2] on psychology in the July 1945 issue of Politics ("simply meaningless"), a communist pamphlet ("an accumulation of stale phrases") and a reader's letter in ...

  7. NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Soon after the code words were developed by ICAO (see history below), they were adopted by other national and international organizations, including the ITU, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United States Federal Government as Federal Standard 1037C: Glossary of Telecommunications Terms [5] and its successors ANSI T1.523-2001 [6] and ATIS Telecom Glossary (ATIS-0100523.2019 ...

  8. Languages of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Under U.S. rule, the English language began to be promoted instead of Spanish. The use of Spanish began to decline as a result of the introduction of English into the public schools as a language of instruction. [18] The 1935 constitution establishing the Philippine Commonwealth designated both English and Spanish as official languages.

  9. Jamaican English - Wikipedia

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    Jamaican English, including Jamaican Standard English, is a variety of English native to Jamaica and is the official language of the country. [1] A distinction exists between Jamaican English and Jamaican Patois (a creole language ), though not entirely a sharp distinction so much as a gradual continuum between two extremes. [ 2 ]