Winged WordsHamilton, 1988 - 292 pagini |
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Pagina 127
... recent ambivalence of White Knights is more than a pedantic itch to verify one's literary references . The new ... recently . He seems now to have disap- peared . Maybe he has been conflated with the knight in shining armour to make the ...
... recent ambivalence of White Knights is more than a pedantic itch to verify one's literary references . The new ... recently . He seems now to have disap- peared . Maybe he has been conflated with the knight in shining armour to make the ...
Pagina 153
... recent variant is : ' You don't get many of those to the kilo . ' Is this a sign of inflation ? I dare say that the male chauvinist saying is not all that recent . The rough boys at Pompeii were probably cracking the same bad joke with ...
... recent variant is : ' You don't get many of those to the kilo . ' Is this a sign of inflation ? I dare say that the male chauvinist saying is not all that recent . The rough boys at Pompeii were probably cracking the same bad joke with ...
Pagina 165
... recent arrival . The 1933 OED Supplement found an earlier example of 1896 from George Ade , the Indiana author whose books are noted for their racy use of the vernacular , and their sympathetic portrayal of country characters : ' Up to ...
... recent arrival . The 1933 OED Supplement found an earlier example of 1896 from George Ade , the Indiana author whose books are noted for their racy use of the vernacular , and their sympathetic portrayal of country characters : ' Up to ...
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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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