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Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday Leeds Saturday Leeds Sunday Leeds Friday The Polyphonic Spree Bobby Conn The Reindeer Section Cody Chesnutt Princess Superstar British Sea Power The Kennedy Soundtrack The Datsuns Interpol The Kills Longwave Simple Kid Pretty Girls Make Graves Ikara Colt The Parkinsons The ( International ) Noise Conspiracy Span Vendetta Red Ben Kweller The Eighties Matchbox B - Line Disaster Cave In The Beatings The D4 Millionaire Serafin Vue The Cognition The Music Alpinestars Easyworld Maximum Roach Minuteman Biffy Clyro Hell Is for Heroes Jetplane Landing Dragpipe Trik Turner Tetra Splendour ThisGirl
The Rite of Spring
The French titles are given in the form given in the four - part piano score published in 1913 . There have been numerous variants of the English translations ; those shown are from the 1967 edition of the score .
Cluedo
These books are now out of print but can still be bought from various online retailers in both new and used conditions .
Flowers in the Attic
Flowers in the Attic First edition cover of Flowers in the Attic Author V.C. Andrews Country United States Language English Series Dollanganger series Genre Gothic horror Family saga Publisher Simon & Schuster Publication date November 1979 Media type Print Pages 400 ISBN 0 - 671 - 82531 - 3 OCLC 21616361 Followed by Petals on the Wind ( 1980 )
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fire A Song of Ice and Fire book collection box set cover A Game of Thrones ( 1996 ) A Clash of Kings ( 1998 ) A Storm of Swords ( 2000 ) A Feast for Crows ( 2005 ) A Dance with Dragons ( 2011 ) The Winds of Winter ( forthcoming ) A Dream of Spring ( forthcoming ) Author George R.R. Martin Country United States Language English Genre Epic fantasy Publisher Bantam Books ( US , Canada ) Voyager Books ( UK , Australia ) Published August 1996 -- present Media type Print ( hardback & paperback ) audiobook
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Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday The Mission Spear of Destiny The Fall Icicle Works Fields of the Nephilim The Godfathers All About Eve The Babysitters Status Quo Georgia Satellites Magnum Lee Aaron MGM Terraplane Glory Shy Dumpy 's Rusty Nuts Quireboys Blues ' n ' Trouble Alice Cooper The Stranglers Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction FM The Bolshoi The Enid Vow Wow Lizzy Borden Gypsy Queen Virginia Wolf Kooga Chariot
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland Cover of the original edition ( 1865 ) Author Lewis Carroll Illustrator John Tenniel Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Children 's fiction Publisher Macmillan Publication date 26 November 1865 Followed by Through the Looking - Glass
Waiting for Godot
There is only one scene throughout both acts . Two men are waiting on a country road by a tree . The men are of unspecified origin , though it is clear that they are not English by nationality ( and in English - language productions are traditionally played with Irish accents ) . The script calls for Estragon to sit on a low mound but in practice -- as in Beckett 's own 1975 German production -- this is usually a stone . In the first act the tree is bare . In the second , a few leaves have appeared despite the script specifying that it is the next day . The minimal description calls to mind `` the idea of the lieu vague , a location which should not be particularised '' .
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Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday The Wedding Present Lush Sebadoh The Auteurs Sleeper Velocity Girl Honky Smudge Drugstore dEUS The Tea Party Madder Rose Elastica Compulsion Shed Seven Superchunk Tiny Monroe Gene Lotion Salad Jale Possum Dixon Scarce Shootyz Groove Tindersticks American Music Club They Might Be Giants Cud Echobelly Morphine Jeff Buckley Archers of Loaf Scrawl Dig Cellophane Candlebox
Blood Sweat & Tears (song)
The Korean edition of the single did not have a physical release . The Japanese release included two B - side songs , the Japanese versions of `` Not Today '' and `` Spring Day '' . Four editions were made available : a standard edition , and three limited editions , Type A , Type B , and Type C , which excluded `` Spring Day '' . Photocards were not included in the individual editions , but a special seven - piece photoset was available for a limited time with the complete boxed set offered by Universal Music Japan .
Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls First Hardcover Edition Author Jacqueline Susann Country United States Language English Published 1966 ( Bernard Geis Associates ) Media type Print ( Hardback & Paperback ) Pages 442 pp ( hardcover edition ) ISBN 978 - 0802135193 Preceded by Every Night , Josephine ! Followed by The Love Machine
Vowel
In Southern varieties of Chinese , such as Cantonese and Minnan , some monosyllabic words are made of exclusively nasals , such as ( m̩ ˨ ˩ ) `` no '' and ( ŋ̩ ˩ ˧ ) `` five '' .
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Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday Leeds Saturday Leeds Sunday Leeds Friday Django Django Alvvays Prides Bear 's Den Vaults Joywave Little May Eliza And The Bear Jake Isaac Sunset Sons Hunter & The Bear The Bulletproof Bomb The Wombats Lucy Rose Ash Darlia Seether Radkey Pretty Vicious DMA 's Blossoms Rat Boy Bad Breeding Neon Waltz San Fermin Walking on Cars Hunck Frank Turner ( Solo ) Little Comets Manchester Orchestra We Are the Ocean Coasts Jack Garratt Spring King Mini Mansions Gengahr Hippo Campus Sundara Karma Black Honey The Last Internationale The Sherlocks
Romance languages
) / molhér ( obj . ) muller muller mujer muyer mulher son fīlium fìzu fiu figghiu figliu / figliolu figlio fiol fiōl fiö / bagaj fieul fi figl , fegl fils / fis / filh fill fillo hijo fíu filho water aquam àbba apă acqua acqua acqua acua aqua acqua / agua / ova / eiva eva aghe aua eau / o / aiga aigua aigua , augua agua agua água fire focum fócu foc focu focu fuoco fogo foeugh fögh feu fûc fieu feu / fø / fuòc foc fuego fuego fueu fogo rain pluviam próida ploaie chiuvuta pioggia pioggia pióva pioeuva piöa pieuva ploe plievgia pluie / plɥi / pluèja pluja plebia lluvia lluvia chuva land terram tèrra ţară terra terra terra tera tera tera tèra tiere terra / tiara terre / tɛʁ / tèrra terra tierra tierra tierra terra sky caelum chélu cer celu celu cielo çiél cēl cel / sel cel cîl tschiel ciel / sjɛl / cèl cel zielo cielo cielu céu high altum àrtu înalt autu altu alto alto élt volt / ot àut alt aut haut / o / n - aut alt alto alto altu alto new novum nóbu nou novu novu nuovo nóvo noeuv nöf / noeuv neuv
HTML
The Transitional version allows the following parts of the vocabulary , which are not included in the Strict version :
Reading and Leeds Festivals line-ups
Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday Rocket from the Crypt Sebadoh Bis 60 Ft . Dolls Drugstore Social Distortion Placebo Sparklehorse Urusei Yatsura New Kingdom Goldblade Dubstar Northern Uproar Space Catatonia Salad My Life Story China Drum The Brotherhood Ben Folds Five Tiger Jack Dweeb Underworld The Flaming Lips Babybird Lionrock Tortoise Vent 414 Girls Against Boys 3 Colours Red Scarfo Linoleum Earl Brutus
Un village français
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Hail Mary
The Western version of the prayer is thus not derived from the Greek version : even the earliest Western forms have no trace of the Greek version 's phrases : `` Mother of God and Virgin '' and `` for thou hast given birth to the Saviour of our souls . ''
Romance languages
English Latin Sardinian ( Nuorese ) Romanian Sicilian Corsican ( Northern ) Italian Venetian Emilian Lombard Piedmontese Friulian Romansh French Occitan Catalan Aragonese Spanish Asturian Portuguese man homō , hominem òmine om omu omu uomo om ( en ) o òm ( en ) om ( en ) òm om um homme / ɔm / òme home om ( br ) e hombre home homem woman , wife Domina , femina , mulier , mulierem muzère muiere mugghieri moglie donna , moglie mojer mujér miee / fomna fomna muîr muglier femme / fam / OF moillier OOc mólher ( nom . ) / molhér ( obj .
Afrikaans
infinitive form present indicative form Dutch English German wees is zijn ( wezen ) be sein ( gewesen ) hê het hebben have haben
Vespers
Since its inception , the Anglican communion has maintained an evening office , which is called evening prayer ( or evensong ) . There are prescribed forms of the service in the Anglican prayer book . A similar form of the service is found in the Vespers section of The Lutheran Hymnal . The Anglican breviary contains Vespers in English according to the pre-1970 Roman rite . For information on that service , see above , as in the Roman breviary . The Liberal Catholic Rite also includes Vespers , including the Te Deum as an alternative to the Magnificat .
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Across the Universe
This version was issued on four Beatles compilation albums : the British version of Rarities , the different American version of Rarities , The Beatles Ballads , and the second disc of the two - CD Past Masters album .
Stephen
) 斯蒂芬 , 史蒂芬 ( Sidifen , Shidifen ; Mandarin Chinese ) 스티븐 ( Seutibeun ; Korean ) સ્ટીફન ( Sṭīphana ; Gujarati ) स्टीफन ( Sṭīphana ; Hindi ) ಸ್ಟೀಫನ್ ( Sṭīphan ; Kannada ) स्टीफन ( Sṭīphana ; Marathi ) Стефен ( Styefyen ; Mongolian ) स्टीफन ( Sṭīphana ; Nepali ) ਸਟੀਫਨ ( Saṭīphana ; Punjabi ) స్టీఫెన్ ( Sṭīphen ; Telugu ) สตี เฟ่ น ( S̄tīfèn ; Thai ) اسٹیفن ( Urdu ) স্টিফেন ( Sṭiphēn ; Bengali ) , স্টিভেন ( Sṭibhēn ) , স্টিভ ( Sṭibh ) סטעפאנוסן ( Stʻpʼnwsn ; Yiddish ) Eapen ( Malayalam ) Steephan ( South Indian ) Steeve or Stephane and Stephanie for female ( Québec ) İstfan , Stepan ( Azeri ) Steffeni , Stefani , Stiifaat ( Greenlandic ) ᔅᑏᕕᓐ ( Stiifin ; Inuktitut ) ᔅᑌᕝᐋᓐ , ᔅᑌᕚᓐ ( Stefân , Stevân ; East Cree ) Ecen ( Wolof ) Etiiviuq ( Yup'ik ) Stefanu ( Yoruba ) uStefanu ( Zulu )
Agatha Christie
She had trouble with an incompetent Swiss French nursery helper ( Marcelle ) for toddler Rosalind , and as a result she decided , `` Scottish preferred ... good with the young . The French were hopeless disciplinarians ... Germans good and methodical , but it was not German that I really wanted Rosalind to learn . The Irish were gay but made trouble in the house ; the English were of all kinds '' .
Acronym
In some languages , the convention of doubling the letters in the acronym is used to indicate plural words : for example , the Spanish EE . UU. , for Estados Unidos ( ' United States ' ) . This old convention is still followed for a limited number of English abbreviations , such as SS. for `` Saints '' , pp. for the Latin plural of `` pages '' , paginae , or MSS for `` manuscripts '' . In the case of pp. it derives from the original Latin phrase per procurationem meaning ' through the agency of ' ; an English translation alternative is particular pages in a book or document : see pp. 8 -- 88 . Further
Charlotte's Web
Charlotte 's Web First edition Author E.B. White Illustrator Garth Williams Cover artist Garth Williams Country United States Language English Genre Children 's Publisher Harper & Brothers Publication date October 15 , 1952 Pages 192 ISBN 9780062658753
Mail order
Hand - painted page from a Tulip Catalogue , 1630s Cover of Findlay and Co 's Illustrated Catalogue of Cottages , Doors , Sashes , Mouldings , Architraves , and Every Description of Furnishings for Building Purposes , 1874 Illustrated Catalogue of Cottage Organs , J. Estey & Company , Vermont , 1875 Fashion Catalogue , H. O'Neill and Co. , 1890 Page from Catalogue of Seeds , Plants , Bulbs and Fruits , 1894 Cover of Arthur Yates and Co. 's Nursery and Seed Catalogue , Auckland , NZ , 1899 Page from Henry G. Gilbert 's Nursery and Seed Trade Catalogue , Kentucky , 1902 Wunderman
A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens wants his readers to be careful that the same revolution that so damaged France will not happen in Britain , which ( at least at the beginning of the book ) is shown to be nearly as unjust as France ; Ruth Glancy has argued that Dickens portrays France and England as nearly equivalent at the beginning of the novel , but that as the novel progresses , England comes to look better and better , climaxing in Miss Pross 's pro-Britain speech at the end of the novel . But his warning is addressed not to the British lower classes , but to the aristocracy . He repeatedly uses the metaphor of sowing and reaping ; if the aristocracy continues to plant the seeds of a revolution through behaving unjustly , they can be certain of harvesting that revolution in time . The lower classes do not have any agency in this metaphor : they simply react to the behaviour of the aristocracy . In this sense it can be said that while Dickens sympathizes with the poor , he identifies with the rich : they are the book 's audience , its `` us '' and not its `` them '' . `` Crush humanity out of shape once more , under similar hammers , and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms . Sow the same seed of rapacious licence and oppression over again , and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind '' .
Haiku
Kigo are often in the form of metonyms and can be difficult for those who lack Japanese cultural references to spot . The Bashō examples below include `` kawazu '' , `` frog '' implying spring , and `` shigure '' , a rain shower in late autumn or early winter . Kigo are not always included in non-Japanese haiku or by modern writers of Japanese `` free - form '' haiku .
Elsa (Frozen)
( show ) Elsa 's dubbers worldwide Language Dialogues Singing Arabic نسمة محجوب ( Nesma Mahgoub ) Brazilian Portuguese Taryn Szpilman ( pt ) Bulgarian Надежда Панайотова ( Nadezhda Panayotova ) Canadian French Aurélie Morgane Anaïs Delva Cantonese 黃紫嫻 ( `` Wong Ji - Haan '' ; Kitty Wong ) ( zh ) 白 珍寶 ( `` Jan - bo Baak '' ; Jobelle Ubalde ) Castilian Spanish Ana Esther Alborg Gisela Catalan Mar Nicolás Gisela Croatian Kristina Krepela Nataša Mirković Czech Andrea Elsnerová ( cs ; de ) Monika Absolonová Danish Maria Lucia Rosenberg Dutch Willemijn Verkaik English Idina Menzel Estonian Hanna - Liina Võsa ( et ; es ) European French Anaïs Delva European Portuguese Maria Camões ( pt ) Ana Margarida Encarnação Finnish Katja Sirkiä ( fi ) Flemish Elke Buyle German Dina Kürten ( de ) Willemijn Verkaik Greek Σία Κοσκινά ( Sía Koskiná ) ( el ) Hebrew מונה מור ( Mona Mor ) Hindi सुनिधि चौहान ( Sunidhi Chauhan ) Hungarian Réka Farkasházi ( hu ) Nikolett Füredi ( hu ) Icelandic Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir Indonesian Lis Kurniasih Mikha Sherly Marpaung Italian Serena Autieri Japanese Takako Matsu Kazakh
Lexicographical order
either a is a prefix of b or there exists words u , v , w ( possibly empty ) and elements x and y of A such that
Haiku
古池 や 蛙 飛び込む 水 の 音 ふる いけ や かわず とびこむ みずの お と ( transliterated into 17 hiragana ) furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto ( transliterated into rōmaji )
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
In the eighth chapter , three cards are painting the roses red on a rose tree , because they had accidentally planted a white - rose tree that The Queen of Hearts hates . Red roses symbolised the English House of Lancaster , while white roses were the symbol for their rival , the House of York . This scene is an allusion to the Wars of the Roses .
When the Saints Go Marching In
Arrangements vary considerably . The simplest is just an endless repetition of the chorus . Verses may be alternated with choruses , or put in the third of 4 repetitions to create an AABA form with the verse as the bridge .
Für Elise
Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor ( WoO 59 , Bia 515 ) for solo piano , commonly known as `` Für Elise '' ( German : ( fyːɐ̯ ʔeˈliːzə ) , English : `` For Elise '' ) , is one of Ludwig van Beethoven 's most popular compositions . It was not published during his lifetime , only being discovered ( by Ludwig Nohl ) forty years after his death , and may be termed either a Bagatelle or an Albumblatt . The identity of `` Elise '' is unknown ; researchers have suggested Therese Malfatti , Elisabeth Röckel or Elise Barensfeld .
Reading and Leeds Festivals line-ups
Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday Jimmy Page , Robert Plant Ash Mansun Deftones The Afghan Whigs Symposium Rocket from the Crypt Monster Magnet Headswim Beastie Boys Prodigy Supergrass Foo Fighters Echo & the Bunnymen Lee `` Scratch '' Perry Rancid Asian Dub Foundation Money Mark Jurassic 5 Bis Garbage New Order The Bluetones Shed Seven The Divine Comedy Monaco Audioweb Drugstore Girls Against Boys
Ode on a Grecian Urn
By the spring of 1819 , Keats had left his job as dresser , or assistant house surgeon , at Guy 's Hospital , Southwark , London , to devote himself entirely to the composition of poetry . Living with his friend Charles Brown , the 23 - year - old was burdened with money problems and despaired when his brother George sought his financial assistance . These real - world difficulties may have given Keats pause for thought about a career in poetry , yet he did manage to complete five odes , including `` Ode to a Nightingale '' , `` Ode to Psyche '' , `` Ode on Melancholy '' , `` Ode on Indolence '' , and `` Ode on a Grecian Urn '' . The poems were transcribed by Brown , who later provided copies to the publisher Richard Woodhouse . Their exact date of composition is unknown ; Keats simply dated `` Ode on a Grecian Urn '' May 1819 , as he did its companion odes . While the five poems display a unity in stanza forms and themes , the unity fails to provide clear evidence of the order in which they were composed .
Western (genre)
Westerns have been showcased in short episodic web series . Examples include League of STEAM , Red Bird and Arkansas Traveler .
Romance languages
Unlike in English , a separate neuter personal pronoun ( `` it '' ) generally does not exist , but the third - person singular and plural both distinguish masculine from feminine . Also , as described above , case is marked on pronouns even though it is not usually on nouns , similar to English . As in English , there are forms for nominative case ( subject pronouns ) , oblique case ( object pronouns ) , and genitive case ( possessive pronouns ) ; in addition , third - person pronouns distinguish accusative and dative . There is also an additional set of possessive determiners , distinct from the genitive case of the personal pronoun ; this corresponds to the English difference between `` my , your '' and `` mine , yours '' . Development
Ring a Ring o' Roses
The plague explanation did not appear until the mid-twentieth century . The symptoms described do not fit especially well with the Great Plague . The great variety of forms makes it unlikely that the modern form is the most ancient one , and the words on which the interpretation are based are not found in many of the earliest records of the rhyme ( see above ) . European and 19th - century versions of the rhyme suggest that this `` fall '' was not a literal falling down , but a curtsy or other form of bending movement that was common in other dramatic singing games .
Italian language
English Italian IPA what ( adj . ) che ke what ( standalone ) cosa ˈkɔsa who chi ki how come ˈkome where dove ˈdove why , because perché perˈke which quale ˈkwale when quando ˈkwando how much quanto ˈkwanto
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd song)
As part of the Why Pink Floyd ... ? campaign , the Experience and Immersion versions of the Wish You Were Here album include an alternative version of the song where Grappelli 's part is heard in the instrumental break after the second verse and throughout the third verse before a considerably extended outro . Other less obvious differences are audible , for example at the section leading into the second verse .
Vowel
All languages have monophthongs and many languages have diphthongs , but triphthongs or vowel sounds with even more target qualities are relatively rare cross-linguistically . English has all three types : the vowel sound in hit is a monophthong / ɪ / , the vowel sound in boy is in most dialects a diphthong / ɔɪ / , and the vowel sounds of flower , / aʊər / , form a triphthong or disyllable , depending on dialect .
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Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday Leeds Saturday Leeds Sunday Leeds Friday Green Day System of a Down Deftones Frank Turner Bring Me the Horizon New Found Glory Skindred While She Sleeps Eminem Chase & Status Foals White Lies Twin Atlantic EarlWolf The Blackout Lower Than Atlantis Mallory Knox Biffy Clyro Nine Inch Nails Fall Out Boy The Lumineers Editors Don Broco Hadouken ! We Are the In Crowd Bury Tomorrow
Edible bird's nest
Edible bird 's nest Traditional Chinese 燕窩 Simplified Chinese 燕窝 Literal meaning `` swallow nest '' ( show ) Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin yànwō Wade -- Giles yen - wo IPA ( jɛ̂n. wó ) Yue : Cantonese Yale Romanization yin - wō IPA ( jīːn. wɔ́ː ) Jyutping jin3 - wo1 Southern Min Hokkien POJ iàn - o
Log Horizon
) November 30 , 2011 ISBN 978 - 4 - 04 - 727669 - 7 July 19 , 2016 ISBN 978 - 0 - 316 - 26386 - 3 6 Lost Child of the Dawn Yoake no Mayoigo ( 夜明け の 迷い子 ) March 30 , 2013 ISBN 978 - 4 - 04 - 728235 - 3 November 15 , 2016 ISBN 978 - 0 - 316 - 26387 - 0 7 Gold of the Kunie Kunie no Ougon ( 供 贄 の 黄金 ) December 20 , 2013 ISBN 978 - 4 - 04 - 729175 - 1 ( regular edition ) ISBN 978 - 4 - 04 - 729176 - 8 ( special edition ) March 21 , 2017 ISBN 978 - 0 - 316 - 26388 - 7 8 The Larks Take Flight Hibari - tachi no Habataki ( 雲雀 ( ひばり ) たち の 羽ばたき ) September 29 , 2014 ISBN 978 - 4 - 04 - 729926 - 9 ( regular edition ) ISBN 978 - 4 - 04 - 729927 - 6 ( special edition ) June 20 , 2017 ISBN 978 - 0 - 316 - 47095 - 7 9 Kanami , Go ! East ! Kanami , Gō ! Īsuto ! ( カナミ 、 ゴー ! イースト ! ) March 27 , 2015 ISBN 978 - 4 - 04 - 730190 - 0 October 31 , 2017 ISBN 978 - 0 - 316 - 47097 - 1 10 Homesteading the Noosphere Noasfia no Kaikon ( ノウアスフィア の 開墾 ) September 30 , 2015 ISBN 978 - 4047306745 February 20 , 2018 ISBN 978 - 0 - 316 - 47105 - 3 11 Kurasuti Taikūn Rōdo ( クラス ティ ・ タイクーン ・ ロード ) March 20 , 2018 ISBN 978 - 4047306745 --
Fairy Tail
Fairy Tail Zero , Ice Trail , Blue Mistral , Fairy Girls , and the first two installments of Gaiden are all licensed for English release by Kodansha USA .
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Reading Friday Reading Saturday Reading Sunday Leeds Saturday Leeds Sunday Leeds Friday My Chemical Romance Thirty Seconds to Mars The Offspring Deftones Rise Against Bring Me The Horizon New Found Glory The Blackout Architects The Strokes ( Headlining Reading ) Pulp ( Headlining Leeds ) The National Jimmy Eat World Madness Two Door Cinema Club Seasick Steve The Pigeon Detectives The Joy Formidable Muse Elbow Interpol Friendly Fires Enter Shikari The View Frank Turner Taking Back Sunday We Are the Ocean
Romance languages
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Desert
English desert and its Romance cognates ( including Italian and Portuguese deserto , French désert and Spanish desierto ) all come from the ecclesiastical Latin dēsertum ( originally `` an abandoned place '' ) , a participle of dēserere , `` to abandon '' . The correlation between aridity and sparse population is complex and dynamic , varying by culture , era , and technologies ; thus the use of the word desert can cause confusion . In English before the 20th century , desert was often used in the sense of `` unpopulated area '' , without specific reference to aridity ; but today the word is most often used in its climate - science sense ( an area of low precipitation ) . Phrases such as `` desert island '' and `` Great American Desert '' , or Shakespeare 's `` deserts of Bohemia '' ( The Winter 's Tale ) in previous centuries did not necessarily imply sand or aridity ; their focus was the sparse population .