Linguistics Reference
epub |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Moore, Christopher J. [Moore, Christopher J.]

WAGs (noun phrase) A frankly silly acronym and phrase coined by newspaper copy editors to describe the pampered wives and girlfriends of rich soccer players. On the subject of acronyms ...
( Category: Victorian August 7,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-10-29 | Author:Jeremy Butterfield [Butterfield, Jeremy]

The company a word keeps Words do not exist in isolation. They are strongly attracted to other words, and associate with them to make regular, predictable patterns. Those patterns are ...
( Category: Etymology August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Emile de Girardin [Girardin, Emile de]

Chapter XVII * IRENE DE CHATEAUDUN to MME. LA VICOMTESSE DE BRAIMES, Hotel of the Prefecture, Grenoble (Isère). RICHEPORT, June 29th 18—. I am at Richeport, at Madame de Meilhan's ...
( Category: Americas August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-09-25 | Author:H. Beam Piper [Piper, H. Beam]

* * * At 1100, Paula Quinton and Barney Mordkovitz virtually ordered him to get some sleep. He went to his quarters at Company House, downed a spaceship-captain's-size drink of ...
( Category: Adventure August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-04-29 | Author:Peters, Pam [Peters, Pam]

( Category: Linguistics August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-11 | Author:Barrett, Charles Raymond [Barrett, Charles Raymond]

Grandma and grandpa were expected to dinner; also Mr. Draco, or "Harry," as every one called him. He was a friend of the family's, and Clara's lover. Note how Hawthorne ...
( Category: Linguistics August 5,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2020-01-29 | Author:David Crystal

A thousand days Here’s the beginning of Suzie’s story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ (p. 97): One – one day they went out to build their houses. One built it ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 1959-08-02 | Author:Randall Garrett [Garrett, Randall]

Chapter 5 Malone opened his mouth, but nothing came out. Not even air. He wasn't breathing. He stared at Burris for a long moment, then took a breath and looked ...
( Category: Adventure August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 1957-08-14 | Author:Lester Del Rey [Del Rey, Lester]

Chapter 9 Judgment Doc woke to see sunlight shining through a heavily barred window that must be in the official Southport jail. He waited a few minutes for his head ...
( Category: Adventure August 2,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:David Abram [Abram, David]

The moral efficacy of the landscape—this power of the land to ensure mindful and respectful behavior in the community—is mediated by a whole class of stories that are regularly recounted ...
( Category: Humanism August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-09 | Author:Disraeli, Benjamin [Disraeli, Benjamin]

( Category: Political August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 1920-07-14 | Author:David Herbert Lawrence [Lawrence, David Herbert]

Chapter 9 Alvina becomes Allaye Alvina wept when the Natchas had gone. She loved them so much, she wanted to be with them. Even Ciccio she regarded as only one ...
( Category: Short Stories July 27,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Oxford

( Category: English July 26,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mila Schwartz

2 Johanna: hej ja tror ja tar faktiskt ((eye contact with Heikki)) tre ja hej väntas jag tar ett två tre fyra ((counts with her fingers)) å det är (.) ...
( Category: Reform & Policy July 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Cicero [Cicero]

CII (F I, 5 b) TO P. LENTULUS SPINTHER (IN CILICIA) Rome (February) B.C. 56, ÆT. 50 What is being done and has been done here I imagine you know ...
( Category: Rome July 22,2020 )