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  • ...ews/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t29 '''''Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language'''''] ...ting, [[etymology]], [[pidgin]], [[poetry]], [[sexism]], [[Shakespeare]]'s language, and [[slang]]. Features include pieces on place-names, borrowings from oth
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  • ...ish language, [[tradition]]al [[culture]] and English Literature. Covers [[English]], American and Commonwealth writers. Its sources are [[Books]], [[periodic
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  • ...sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t140 '''''The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised)'''''] ...[[language]]. It is at the forefront of language [[research]], focusing on English as it is used today, and has a unique defining style, with the modern [[mea
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  • ...og.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t30 '''''Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage'''''] ...nglish, the new edition answers your most frequently asked questions about language use.
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  • ...eatures expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evid
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  • '''''[https://0-www.oed.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/ Oxford English Dictionary]''''' ...onary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last
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  • ...reference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t145a (Irish-English)] ...ry is intended for learners of Irish and for all those interested in the [[language]].
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  • ...oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t145b (English-Irish)] ...ry is intended for learners of Irish and for all those interested in the [[language]].
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  • ....oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t66b (English-Italian)] ...mar]]. Including complete coverage of contemporary idiomatic Italian and [[English]], both written and spoken, The Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary covers the
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  • ...reference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t131a (Latin-English)] ...st years of studying Latin, as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world.
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  • ...oxfordreference.com.catalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t131b (English-Latin)] ...ears of studying [[Latin]], as well as those with an interest in the Latin language or the classical world.
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  • ...atalog.sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t23 '''''The Concise Oxford English Dictionary'''''] ...yday words including scientific and technical [[vocabulary]], as well as [[English]] from around the world. This revised edition of the dictionary has been up
    868 bytes (111 words) - 23:43, 12 December 2020
  • ...other regional varieties and constituting [[together]] with them a single language <the Doric dialect of ancient [[Greek]]> :c : a variety of a [[language]] used by the members of a [[group]] <such dialects as [[politics]] and adv
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  • A corpus may contain texts in a single language (monolingual corpus) or text data in multiple languages (multilingual corpu ...(base) form of each word. When the language of the corpus is not a working language of the researchers who use it, interlinear glossing is usedto make the anno
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  • ....sewanee.edu/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t28 '''''The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar'''''] ...[[phonetics]] and transformational grammar, are accompanied by examples of language in use, and frequent quotations from existing works on grammar.
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  • ...elected by leading Slavic scholars in the USA who carefully guided English language translations. CDPSP Digital Archive paints a broad picture of life in Sovie
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  • ...he result of thorough research into the language and Oxford's unparalleled language resources.
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  • ...some extent variable, compared with mostly [[analytic]] languages such as English, which has lost the ancient noun-case system inherited from [[Proto-Indo-Eu ...y words adapted from Latin are found in other modern languages—including [[English]], half of whose vocabulary is derived, directly or indirectly, from Latin.
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  • ...N_PERIOD Old English] rǣdelse [[opinion]], conjecture, riddle; akin to Old English rǣdan to [[interpret]] — more at [[read]] ...are problems generally [[expressed]] in [[metaphorical]] or allegorical [[language]] that require ingenuity and careful [[thinking]] for their solution, and c
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  • ...th century. The first attestation of ''gullibility'' known to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] appears in 1793, and ''gullible'' in 1825. The OED gives gulli ...pear in the 1900 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_English_Dictionary New English Dictionary].
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