Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 2006-09-01 | Author:Jonathan Bernstein
A slob, a dirty, scruffy, unkempt place or person, like Pigpen from Peanuts (Scottish-Irish) Mind! Northern British expression meaning watch out, be careful (from mind yourself or mind out) Minging ...
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Dictionaries & Thesauruses
September 2,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-16 | Author:M. I. Ebbutt
The First Test That night Ailill put them to an unexpected test. Their feast was served to them in a separate room, and the king went to his protectors, the ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 30,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-27 | Author:Mark Walker [Mark Walker]
Notes: For the first two lines see Chapter 9, extract 4 excelsis – ablative plural of excelsus, noun from verb excello, excellere (English ‘excel’) laudamus … benedicimus … adoramus … ...
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Europe
August 28,2018 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2017-03-30 | Author:Michael Buckland
Figurative Use of Language New names arise, especially for new topics, through figurative use of language, especially through metaphor. Well-established terms are used figuratively, based on some perceived similarity, for ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 26,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Gregory, Lady [Gregory, Lady]
* * * CHAPTER XII. THE GREAT FIGHT Then the King of the World came to the strand, and all his armies with him; and all that were left of ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 26,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Trevor Cox
All the Robots Merely Players EDISON’S EARLY DEMONSTRATIONS of recorded voices created great excitement but at times the scraping of the needle on the tinfoil drowned out the speech. The ...
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Social Sciences
August 25,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-10-28 | Author:Frank Close
From bubble chamber to spark chamber A bubble chamber can provide a complete picture of an interaction, but it has some limitations. It is sensitive only when its contents are ...
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Physics
August 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-30 | Author:Johann Ahn & Peter Henn & Claude Pavur [Ahn, Johann]
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-20 | Author:Durkin, Philip;
6.10 Some conclusions from chapters 5 and 6 Some generalizations about etymologies which involve borrowing can be drawn from the topics we have examined in the last two chapters: • ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 1993-08-20 | Author:Harris, Randy Allen;
b Mis padres son respectivamente alta y bajo. [My parents are respectively tallfeminine and shortmasculine] The data clearly supports lexical decomposition (padres from madre y padre), and clearly suggests that ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 21,2018 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1998-08-15 | Author:Laurie Bauer
Sources and further reading For more details on how people socially evaluate language varieties, see chapter 2 of Howard Giles and Nikolaus Coupland, Language: Contexts and Consequences (Pacific Grove, CA: ...
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Essays & Correspondence
August 21,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Kleinedler
United States United Kingdom * * * hood/trunk (of a car) bonnet/boot vacation holiday pharmacist chemist elevator lift And, the same word can have different meanings. For example, football in ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 20,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Max Cryer [Cryer, Max]
The Silver Screen Fasten your seat belts Bette Davis said ‘Fasten your seat belts—it’s going to be a bumpy ride.’ She didn’t. Bette Davis was playing bossy actress Margot Channing ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 19,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Maryanne Wolf
Protecting the Lost Time of Childhood What should parents do about the rest of their young children’s time in home and preschool environments where they are surrounded with digital devices ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-15 | Author:Steven Roger Fischer [Fischer, Steven Roger]
POLYNESIAN LANGUAGES Polynesian, too, claims a venerable pedigree.29 Around 6,000 years ago its parent Austronesian superfamily of languages generated a Proto-Oceanic family that included, on one hand, the Austronesian languages ...
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Words, Language & Grammar
August 16,2018 )
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