Words, Language & Grammar
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Robert McCloskey

Just then Uncle Telly walked up and agreed, "It's awful pretty, being all colors of the rainbow, but it ain't wound tight. It's so soft you can poke your fist ...
( Category: Humor August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-09 | Author:D P Lyle

Figure 10-2: The DNA fingerprint. Electrophoresis separates DNA sample fragments according to size, which results in columns of bands that can be compared with other samples. The autorad gives you ...
( Category: Forensic Science August 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-08-31 | Author:Garrison Keillor [Keillor, Garrison]

GARY KEILLOR hen I was sixteen years old, I stood six feet two inches tall and weighed a hundred and forty pounds. I was intense and had the metabolism of ...
( Category: Humorous August 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-18 | Author:Ernest Hemingway [Hemingway, Ernest]

Chapter Thirty-One So now they were in the robe again together and it was late in the last night. Maria lay close against him and he felt the long smoothness ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Elizabeth Morrison

N naval/navel naval: Referring to the navy [e.g., ships, personnel, bases, stores, etc.] (the newly appointed naval commander will inspect the naval base today) navel: The depression in the center ...
( Category: Grammar August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-13 | Author:Rosenfelder, Mark [Rosenfelder, Mark]

Progressive The progressive specifically expresses ongoing action. The English progressive (I was studying, I’m cooking) is a good example. In English, we are happy to use the ordinary present for ...
( Category: Linguistics July 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Alan Connor

BREAK THIS WITH SOME EGGS? FAST The urge to time your solve Got up Had shave Did Times crossword Had another shave —ROGER MCGOUGH The wonderful 2006 documentary about crosswords, ...
( Category: Trivia July 23,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2014-02-28 | Author:Maggie Scott

Slack − this is thought to be derived from Old Norse slakki, ‘a hollow between hills’, but some meanings of the word may show influence from Scots slock and its ...
( Category: Vocabulary July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

6 Lust Than lichery, that lathly cors, Come berand lyk a bagit hors; And Idilnes did him leid; Thair wes with him ane vgly sort And mony stynkand fowll tramort ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms July 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-12 | Author:Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson [Robinson, Chris]

Flan − gust of wind, especially one blowing smoke down a chimney, back draught; squall. As the following quotations show, flans are not good for housewives, sailors or gardeners. A ...
( Category: Vocabulary July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

3 Wee Beasts And lat no small beistis suffir skaith [harm] na skornis This quotation from William Dunbar, writing at the beginning of the sixteenth century, makes him sound like ...
( Category: Linguistics July 23,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:George Steiner

6 Whorf, Chomsky, and the Student of Literature 1974 The two positions we are considering can be termed ‘monadist’ or ‘relativist’, and ‘universalist’. The monadist case holds that differences between ...
( Category: General July 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Steiner, George [Steiner, George]

2 In the history and dieory of literature translation has not been a subject of the first importance. It has figured marginally, if at all. The exception is the study ...
( Category: Linguistics July 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Stilman, Anne [Stilman, Anne]

It is also appropriate to use an em dash when text that appears to be heading for a predictable ending suddenly takes an unexpected turn or otherwise reaches a conclusion ...
( Category: Grammar July 22,2014 )
azw |eng | 2007-10-24 | Author:Kirkpatrick, Betty [Kirkpatrick, Betty]

jenny-a’-things a small shop that sells a wide range of different things: I got the marble in the village jenny-a’-things when I was a bairn (=child). jessie an insulting term ...
( Category: Dictionaries July 21,2014 )