The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words, and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with Propriety |
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Sayfa 13
A convenient term for origin and history of a person . It expresses concisely what would otherwise require a rather ponderous circumlocution . Yet the locution past history , or history , is much to be preferred .
A convenient term for origin and history of a person . It expresses concisely what would otherwise require a rather ponderous circumlocution . Yet the locution past history , or history , is much to be preferred .
Sayfa 30
A colloquial term incompatible with dignified diction . Both . We sometimes hear such absurd sentences as , " They both resemble each other very much " ; They are both alike ” ; “ They both met in the street .
A colloquial term incompatible with dignified diction . Both . We sometimes hear such absurd sentences as , " They both resemble each other very much " ; They are both alike ” ; “ They both met in the street .
Sayfa 36
“ To the joint operation , then , of these two causesuniversal reading and climatic influences — we must ascribe our habit of dwelling upon vowel and diphthongal sounds , or of drawling , if that term is insisted upon .
“ To the joint operation , then , of these two causesuniversal reading and climatic influences — we must ascribe our habit of dwelling upon vowel and diphthongal sounds , or of drawling , if that term is insisted upon .
Sayfa 37
“ There was a severe frost in Manitoba , but although the bulk [ greater part ) of the wheat is still uncut , it was not damaged . " Bully “ The term is such good old English that there would be no objection to its revival , but for THE ...
“ There was a severe frost in Manitoba , but although the bulk [ greater part ) of the wheat is still uncut , it was not damaged . " Bully “ The term is such good old English that there would be no objection to its revival , but for THE ...
Sayfa 40
“ Who is not familiar , " writes Dr. William Matthews , “ with scores of pet phrases and cant terms which [ that ] are repeated at this day apparently without a thought of a 6 a their meaning ? Who ever attended a missionary 40 THE ...
“ Who is not familiar , " writes Dr. William Matthews , “ with scores of pet phrases and cant terms which [ that ] are repeated at this day apparently without a thought of a 6 a their meaning ? Who ever attended a missionary 40 THE ...
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| Başlık | The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong Use of Words, and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those who Would Speak and Write with Propriety |
| Yazar | Alfred Ayres |
| Yayıncı | D. Appleton, 1911 |
| Orijinalin kaynağı: | Minnesota Üniversitesi |
| Dijital ortama aktarılmış | 21 Eki 2013 |
| ISBN | 0827436696, 9780827436695 |
| Uzunluk | 337 sayfa |
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