The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository ProseArthur M. Eastman |
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... words might connote shipwreck , disaster , seasickness , and so on . When such groupings of words are shared more or less by all speak- ers of a language , they lead to what have been called WORD FIELDS OI SEMANTIC FIELDS . Thus the word ...
... words might connote shipwreck , disaster , seasickness , and so on . When such groupings of words are shared more or less by all speak- ers of a language , they lead to what have been called WORD FIELDS OI SEMANTIC FIELDS . Thus the word ...
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... words are grander than Saxon ones , and unnecessary words like expedite , ameliorate , predict , extraneous , deracinated , clandestine , subaqueous and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo - Saxon opposite numbers ...
... words are grander than Saxon ones , and unnecessary words like expedite , ameliorate , predict , extraneous , deracinated , clandestine , subaqueous and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo - Saxon opposite numbers ...
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... words and turns of speech , or with the setting up of a " standard English " which must never be departed from . On the contrary , it is especially concerned with the scrapping of every word or idiom which has outworn its usefulness ...
... words and turns of speech , or with the setting up of a " standard English " which must never be departed from . On the contrary , it is especially concerned with the scrapping of every word or idiom which has outworn its usefulness ...
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PERSONAL REPORT | 1 |
Maya Angelou High School Graduation | 11 |
Bernadette Devlin Politics in the University | 21 |
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