Winged WordsHamilton, 1988 - 292 pagini |
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Pagina 116
... remember ' nice ' . Mistakes and misapprehensions become frozen as misquo- tations in a kind of semantic shift , more honoured in the breach than the observance , to use that tag correctly for once . You cannot study language without ...
... remember ' nice ' . Mistakes and misapprehensions become frozen as misquo- tations in a kind of semantic shift , more honoured in the breach than the observance , to use that tag correctly for once . You cannot study language without ...
Pagina 210
... remember the proper names . He was called upon at short notice to play the part of the heroine's father in a Chicago production . He learned the lines in record time , but was still struggling to remember the name of the character he ...
... remember the proper names . He was called upon at short notice to play the part of the heroine's father in a Chicago production . He learned the lines in record time , but was still struggling to remember the name of the character he ...
Pagina 211
... remember . ( Why is it that joggers and those who enter for the London Marathon are so ugly that you would have to blindfold the baby before it would suck ? ) There are advertisements , with pictures of a worried - looking man ...
... remember . ( Why is it that joggers and those who enter for the London Marathon are so ugly that you would have to blindfold the baby before it would suck ? ) There are advertisements , with pictures of a worried - looking man ...
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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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