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   Yule

   The word Joulupukki means "Yule Goat" and probably derives from an old Finnish tradition where people called nuuttipukkis dressed in goat hides circulated in homes after Joulu, eating leftover food.
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   Yule Goat

   During the singing, different slaughter tools were brought in, and the dance ended with the Yule Goat being slaughtered, then it would wake up again.
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   Joulupukki

   The name Joulupukki literally means Yule Goat or Christmas Goat. The Finnish word "pukki" comes from the Swedish "bock" (equivalent of the English "buck" or "billy-goat").
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   Yule Marble

   This means that the metamorphosis is the result of igneous intrusion directly into the neighboring rock. ... US Geological Survey on Yule Marble
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   Middle-earth calendar

   The word lithe means "mild, balmy" in relation to the weather. ... The last day of the year was 1 Yule and the first day of the next year was 2 Yule.
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   Yule Lads

   The Yule lads are said to "come to town" during the last 13 nights before Christmas, each staying for two weeks before departing. ... Another short article
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   Yule–Simon distribution

   This means that the tail of the Yule–Simon distribution is a realization of Zipf's law: f(k;ρ) can be used to model, for example, the relative frequency of the kth most frequent word in a large collection of text, which according to Zipf's law is inversely proportional to a (typically small) power of k. ... ↑ Yule, G. U. (1925).
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   Indian English

   The word "dialogue" means "a line of dialogue" in a movie. ... The book Hobson-Jobson by Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, first published in 1886, gives a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words.
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   Billy Yule

   ^ According to Doug Yule's recollection, quoted on Olivier Landemaine's Velvet Underground Web Page ... Related articles
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    American and British English differences

    Word choice ... It is increasingly common for Americans to say Happy Holidays, referring to all winter holidays (Christmas, Yule, New Year's Day, Hanukkah, Diwali, St. Lucia Day and Kwanzaa) while avoiding any specific religious reference.

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• Billy Yule,
• American and British English differences