Winged WordsHamilton, 1988 - 292 pagini |
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... Dictionary conjectures that seagreen in its gar- dening sense entered the language as a misprint for sengreen . The sengreen ( which Johnson defines in his dictionary , with characteristic prolixity , as ' a plant ' ) also has other ...
... Dictionary conjectures that seagreen in its gar- dening sense entered the language as a misprint for sengreen . The sengreen ( which Johnson defines in his dictionary , with characteristic prolixity , as ' a plant ' ) also has other ...
Pagina 152
... Dictionary of 1859 suggested the gypsy tawno , young and hence little . The next edition of a year later had shifted to the Latin tener , young and hence little . It came into written English at the beginning of the nineteenth century ...
... Dictionary of 1859 suggested the gypsy tawno , young and hence little . The next edition of a year later had shifted to the Latin tener , young and hence little . It came into written English at the beginning of the nineteenth century ...
Pagina 199
... Dictionary is a masterpiece of concise scholarship in ten thousand words , and rank upon rank of distinct definitions , categories , and clauses . The pity of it is that nobody except masochists and professional grammarians ever reads ...
... Dictionary is a masterpiece of concise scholarship in ten thousand words , and rank upon rank of distinct definitions , categories , and clauses . The pity of it is that nobody except masochists and professional grammarians ever reads ...
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