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Joseph Piercy

The Story of English

  • Mariacompartió una citahace 8 años
    Johnson often couldn’t resist putting in his own personal, political and occasionally prejudiced views on the correct definition of certain words:
    EXCISE: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
    OATS: A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland appears to support the people.
    MONSIEUR: A term of reproach for a Frenchman.
    TORY: One who adheres to the ancient constitution of the state, and the apostolical hierarchy of the church of England, opposed to a Whig.
    WHIG: The name of a faction. (Johnson was a staunch supporter of the Tory party.)
  • Marine Profondecompartió una citahace 2 años
    For example, the Old Irish Celtic verb ‘biru’ in the first person singular means ‘I carry’.

    biru i uhozhu eheheh

  • María Fernanda LLcompartió una citahace 4 años
    The Language of Industry
  • prozaccompartió una citahace 4 años
    While many of us may mourn once familiar words such as ‘seldom’, which are now seldom used, we have little choice but to embrace or adapt to the language of today.
  • prozaccompartió una citahace 4 años
    There is only one surviving manuscript of the Old English epic poem Beowulf. Known as the Nowell Codex, it forms part of the British Library’s Cotton Collection, and is held to be one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. Miraculously, it survived a fire in the eighteenth century.
  • prozaccompartió una citahace 4 años
    in fact there are more users of English as a first or second language, than any other language in the world
  • Nurana Heybatovacompartió una citahace 6 años
    I’d like to offer my heartfelt thanks to the following people for their kind help, advice and general fortitude in assisting me with the
  • Nurana Heybatovacompartió una citahace 6 años
    people for
  • a1anmcompartió una citahace 6 años
    ushered in a period of considerable upheaval for the Celtic tribes of Britain.
  • a1anmcompartió una citahace 6 años
    deserves to be lauded, its story to be told.
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