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The following list derives mainly from surveys of possible Brittonic loanwords in English by Richard Coates, Dieter Kastovsky, and D. Gary Miller. Etymologies from the Oxford English Dictionary are included to indicate the view of this authoritative (but not necessarily definitive) source, distinguishing between the first, second, third and online editions.
Sports portal; The subcategories of this category are for articles on specific terms. For glossaries of terms, please place the glossaries in Category:Glossaries of sports and, if one exists, the sport-specific subcategory of Category:Sports terminology.
List of English words with disputed usage. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs. List of ethnic slurs. List of generic and genericized trademarks. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English. List of self-contradicting words in English. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year. Most common words in English.
Articles related to specific bidirectional and bilingual dictionaries for various languages and which include English as one of the language pairs should be listed in Category:English bilingual dictionaries and in a parallel category for the other language used in the book the article is describing, e.g., Category:Swahili bilingual dictionaries ...
Sidney Merlin (1856–1952), sports shooter; John Middleton (1910–1971), footballer; Colin Milburn (1941–1990), cricketer; Gordon Miller (born 1939), Olympic high jumper; Alan Minter (1951–2020), world champion boxer; Ivor Montagu (1904–1984), British national team and founder of the International Table Tennis Federation
Hockey: to score a goal. Comes from the red light behind the net that goes off when a goal is scored. lightweight. Boxing: (A person or thing) of little importance, consequence, intelligence or ability. In boxing, it is a weight class for boxers weighing between 130 and 135 pounds (59.0 and 61.2 kg).
Glossary of Canadian football terms. Glossary of chess. Glossary of climbing terms. Glossary of contract bridge terms. Glossary of cricket terms. Glossary of cue sports terms. Glossary of curling. Glossary of cycling.
Before Samuel Johnson 's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755 and considered the most authoritative and influential work of early English lexicography, there were other early English dictionaries: more than a dozen had been published during the preceding 150 years. This article lists the most significant ones.