Vocative
81gentle — Formerly a vocative in its own right, especially in the plural when it was used to address a group of nobles or gentlemen and gentlewomen. Examples of such usage occur in, e.g., The Merry Wives of Windsor (3:ii) and Henry the Fifth (l:i). The… …
82Last name — In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a man’s last name was probably the term by which he was most often addressed. Such usage has largely given way in modern times to use of his first name. It was always much rarer for a woman to be… …
83love — Literary references, beginning with Chaucer, show that this term has been in use as an endearment since at least the fourteenth century. Originally it was used to a beloved person; in modern times, in Britain, it has become watered down into a …
84man — A commonly used vocative by mainly working class speakers, usually addressed to an adult male but in many varieties of English addressed also to women. The latter usage shows that the semantic content of the word can be entirely forgotten, the …
85quotation vocatives — A distinction has been made in this study between quotation vocatives which arise incidentally and those which are applied to specific hearers as transferred names. A person who sings the Christmas carol which begins, ‘Oh, come, all ye… …
86Czech language — Czech Čeština, Český jazyk Spoken in Czech Republic Serbia Region Central Europe Native speakers 12 million …
87Dual (grammatical number) — Dual (abbreviated du) is a grammatical number that some languages use in addition to singular and plural. When a noun or pronoun appears in dual form, it is interpreted as referring to precisely two of the entities (objects or persons) identified …
88Che (Spanish) — Che (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃe], Portuguese: tchê, IPA: [ˈtʃe]; Valencian: xe, IPA: [ˈtʃe]) is a Spanish diminutive interjection (a vocative expression) commonly used in Argentina and Uruguay. A form of colloquial slang used in a …
89Venetian language — infobox language name=Venetian nativename=Vèneto states=Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Brazil (States of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina under the name of Taliàn with influence of Portuguese and some other Northern Italian languages), Mexico (in… …
90Old Irish — Goídelc Pronunciation [ˈɡoiðʲelɡ] Spoken in Ireland, Isle of Man, western coast of Great Britain …
