MLE

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abbreviation for

multicutural London English: a London dialect of English, characterized by West Indian and South Asian inflections, and frequent use of slang

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THINK YOU’VE GOT A HANDLE ON THIS US STATE NICKNAME QUIZ?

Did you ever collect all those state quarters? Put them to good use on this quiz about curious state monikers and the facts around them.

Question 1 of 8

Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

The Sunflower State

The Evergreen State

The Magnolia State

The Mockingbird State

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Words nearby MLE

Mladic, M.L.Arch., MLB, MLC, MLD, MLE, Mleccha, MLF, MLG., M-line, MLitt

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Example sentences from the Web for MLE

Barbour adds that 'many others of mickle main' were killed in the mle; and the statement is amply confirmed.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
All day long the contest lasted, men fighting hand to hand in a confused mle.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
The attention of the savages had been diverted from them by the mle on deck.
South American Fights and Fighters|Cyrus Townsend Brady
In the general mle which followed the death of Wright and Currey, six other men were killed and fifteen severely wounded.
South American Fights and Fighters|Cyrus Townsend Brady

He is shouldered, jostled, and pushed about by everybody, and he emerges in a battered condition from the mle.
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835|Dorothy Duchesse de Dino

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