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  2. A Thousand Words (film) - Wikipedia

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    English. Budget. $40 million [2] Box office. $22 million [3] A Thousand Words is a 2012 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Brian Robbins from a script by Steve Koren, co-produced by Nicolas Cage, and starring Eddie Murphy. It was released in theaters on March 9, 2012, four years after it was filmed.

  3. A Thousand Words - Wikipedia

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    A Thousand Words. A Thousand Words may refer to: A Thousand Words (album), a 2008 album by Belgian Indie/Electronica artist Styrofoam. A Thousand Words (film), a 2012 film starring Eddie Murphy. "A Thousand Words", a 1997 song by Savage Garden. "A Thousand Words", a 2012 song by Hoobastank from Fight or Flight. A picture is worth a thousand words.

  4. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    Origin/etymology. A pic with thousands words. Meaning. Seeing something is better for learning than having it described. Original form. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." Coined by. Henrik Ibsen. " A picture is worth a thousand words " is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes ...

  5. History of English - Wikipedia

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    e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...

  6. If (Bread song) - Wikipedia

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    If (Bread song) " If " is a song written by American singer-songwriter David Gates in 1971. Originally popularized by his group Bread, "If" charted at No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 when released as a single in 1971 and No. 6 in Canada. It also spent three weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Easy Listening chart, [1] and one week at the top of the ...

  7. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. However, this is arguably a proper noun. There are several six-letter English words with their letters in alphabetical order, including abhors, almost, begins, biopsy, chimps and chintz.

  8. Myriad - Wikipedia

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    Myriad (from Ancient Greek μυριάς, myrias) is technically the number 10,000 (ten thousand); in that sense, the term is used in English almost exclusively for literal translations from Greek, Latin or Sinospheric languages ( Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese ), or when talking about ancient Greek numerals .

  9. A Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia

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    The words "Samuel Johnson" and "English Language" were printed in red; the rest was printed in black. The preface and headings were set in 4.6 mm "English" type, the text—double columned—was set in 3.5 mm pica. This first edition of the dictionary contained a 42,773-word list, to which only a few more were added in subsequent editions.