I want to extract a substring from a string. I have strings like this:

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Asked: May 25, 20262026-05-25T14:21:17+00:00 2026-05-25T14:21:17+00:00

I want to extract a substring from a string.

I have strings like this:

English !'O!Kung Proper noun # A northern variety of the [[!Kung]] [[dialect]] [[continuum]], now principally found in northern Namibia.

or:

English & Conjunction # {{abbreviation of|and}}

These are only two examples.

What I want is to get the word and its part of speech.
E.g.:

I came up with this regex: /English (.*) (Proper noun|Conjunction)+/i

However it doesn’t seem to work. Any idea? 🙂

UPDATE:

I figured out that this one works: /English\s+(.*)\s+(Proper noun|Conjunction)+/i

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-25T14:21:17+00:00

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I figured out that this one works well in PHP: /English\s+(.*)\s+(Proper noun|Conjunction)+/i