Winged WordsHamilton, 1988 - 292 pagini |
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Pagina 40
... living together and having a common interest . From quite early ' community ' was felt to be warmer and more immediate than ' society ' . From the Industrial Revolution on ' community ' became the word to describe experiments in ...
... living together and having a common interest . From quite early ' community ' was felt to be warmer and more immediate than ' society ' . From the Industrial Revolution on ' community ' became the word to describe experiments in ...
Pagina 56
... living in African countries , bureaucrats at Brus- sels , or Chinese abroad and on the make , has a whiff of snootiness in English . It would be interesting to know whether the equivalent word has similarly faint derogatory connotations ...
... living in African countries , bureaucrats at Brus- sels , or Chinese abroad and on the make , has a whiff of snootiness in English . It would be interesting to know whether the equivalent word has similarly faint derogatory connotations ...
Pagina 71
... living language ignores the protests of grammarians and the interests of clarity . If ' hopefully ' must be established in its new sense , some indication that it is being used absolutely as a periphrasis for ' I hope ' can be given by ...
... living language ignores the protests of grammarians and the interests of clarity . If ' hopefully ' must be established in its new sense , some indication that it is being used absolutely as a periphrasis for ' I hope ' can be given by ...
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academic acronym adjective adverb American auto-antonyms band-wagon become better Bible bird British English Brownie called century classics cliché coined collision common cowboy describe Dictionary editor English language eponymous etymology example fashionable free lunch French fudge grammar gravy train Greek hope hopefully hype idiolect idiom Indian English ivory tower jargon journalists journos lady Latin linguistic living look Lord marbles mean metaphor modern Naafi naff never nice noun origin Oxford Oxford English Dictionary paradox Pathetic Fallacy person Phil Mahre phrase political politicians popular prodigal pronounced pronunciation quotation quotes Received Pronunciation recent refer reflexive reflexive pronouns rubbish sengreen sense sentence silly slang social sounds spelling Teddy television term Thatcher thing tion Tommy Handley translation twerp unicorn United Kingdom usage verb vocabulary vogue wally weasel word White Knight woman write wrong wrote
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