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Pagina 83
... original of a word is no infallible guide to its present pronunciation , or indeed its present use . Thus deficit ( defisit ) , with the short e , is probably more frequently heard , though the Latin would suggest long e . This long e ...
... original of a word is no infallible guide to its present pronunciation , or indeed its present use . Thus deficit ( defisit ) , with the short e , is probably more frequently heard , though the Latin would suggest long e . This long e ...
Pagina 96
... original Latin , for example , is abbreviatum ; the importation through writing gives us abbreviate , the importation through speech gives us abridge . From the original Latin redemptionem we have the written redemption and the spoken ...
... original Latin , for example , is abbreviatum ; the importation through writing gives us abbreviate , the importation through speech gives us abridge . From the original Latin redemptionem we have the written redemption and the spoken ...
Pagina 116
... original and personal : his are derivative . It is his ancestor , the original pensioner , that has laid up this inexhaustible fund of merit which makes his Grace so very delicate and exceptious about the merit of all other grantees of ...
... original and personal : his are derivative . It is his ancestor , the original pensioner , that has laid up this inexhaustible fund of merit which makes his Grace so very delicate and exceptious about the merit of all other grantees of ...
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing