Words and Their Ways in English SpeechMacmillan, 1929 - 431 páginas |
Contenido
CHAPTER | 1 |
Language is Poetry | 7 |
Slang and Legitimate Speech | 55 |
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Términos y frases comunes
adjective adverb akin American Anglo-Saxon animals applied associations became become borrowed called century CHAPTER character Chaucer cognate colloquial comes common Compare compound connected corruption curious derived dialect effect Elizabethan England English language English word euphemism Euphuism example expression fact familiar feeling figure folk-etymology German Greek guage habit Hence idea Indo-European inflection influence instance Italian jocose kind lady later Latin word learned linguistic literally literary language Lond Lydford law meaning merely Middle English Modern English native word natural Norman noun obsolete Old French Old High German Old Norse older once meant one's ordinary origin participle particular peculiar person phrase plural poetical poetry popular etymology pronunciation Roman root Saxon seen Shakspere signified similar simply slang sometimes Spanish speak special sense stems suffix suggestion syllable synonym technical teetotum tendency term thing thought tion tive tongue utterance vague verb vocabulary vulgar whence