Titlebook: Words in Everyday Life; G. L. Brook Book 1981 G. L. Brook 1981 English.Everyday Life.linguistics

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Words and Phrases,mation like this; they can tell us a lot about the thoughts and way of life of our ancestors. . is from ON ., a compound of the Scandinavian cognates of . and .. It was the hole in the wall of a house which admitted the light and allowed those inside to look out; in the days before glass was used it also admitted the wind.

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Words from Proper Names,rd is a proper name or not. Eric Partridge’s . (Secker and Warburg, 1949) has an appendix of 165 pages of border-line words which are sometimes regarded as proper names, sometimes as common nouns. The use of an initial capital is an unreliable guide.

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Words and Phrases,of the people who use them, but their chief interest is that they enable us to understand how human beings behave and think. By casually turning over the pages of a dictionary we can acquire a surprising amount of miscellaneous knowledge expressed with admirable conciseness. Paul Jennings, who has a

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Loan-words,orrowed. A widespread belief crops up from time to time in several languages that the use of loan-words is in some way discreditable. The French have coined the blend-word . to denote a variety of French that has too many English loan-words, and admirers of German describe it as ‘pure’ because it us

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Words from Proper Names,e memory is kept alive only by the words which their names have contributed to the English vocabulary. It is often difficult to say whether a given word is a proper name or not. Eric Partridge’s . (Secker and Warburg, 1949) has an appendix of 165 pages of border-line words which are sometimes regard

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Semantics,mmon practice for one of the disputants to dismiss his opponent’s argument by saying that it is merely a matter of semantics, while he goes on to reiterate his own arguments. This approach is open to two objections. The first is the use of the word ‘merely’. When disputants are arguing with words —