Editing ESL/ESL glossary of terms

Glossary of terms and definitions useful for learning English as a Second Language (ESL)

== E ==

=== etymology ===

* study of word origins

== P ==

=== proper noun ===

* a noun that has a name or title (person, place or thing)
** is capitalized to represent its proprietary reference (to a particular thing)
* we can think of a "proper noun" as a noun that refers to itself as distinct from something else
** (we get stuck on the notion of "proper" as in appropriate
* "proper" comes from Latin ''proprius'' for "one's own, particular to itself" 

=== proper number ===

* a number that is a title or represents a particular thing
* proper numbers are read out individually (either single or double-digit numbers) as opposed to being a full number, i.e.
* Room or apartment numbers:
** Room 304 = "Room three-0-four" as opposed to "Room three hundred four"
** Room 1204 = "Room 12-0-4" as opposed to "Room one-two-O-four" (or "Room one thousand, two hundred and four")
* Telephone numbers:
** Tel. 789-234-4355 = "seven-eight-nine, two-three-Four, Four-Three-Five-Five
*** or Seven-Eight-Nine, Two-Three-Four, forty-three fifty-five 
* Addresses
** 116 Maple St = "one, one, six" or "one, sixteen" 
***
* proper numbers

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