expansion of the empire from the seventeenth century onwards‚ reached out and appropriated aspects of other languages. Thanks to this assimilation of multifarious other tongues‚ English contains a staggering vocabulary. The complete oxford English dictionary lists well over 250‚000 words; and this is excluding many more thousand scientific‚ technical‚ and slang terms. Neologisms are being freshly formed all the time. English is a living language. The premise here being discussed is not the noble
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According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary‚ 11th edition‚ health means no illness or injury; the ability to cope with everyday activities; and a good mental and physical condition. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical‚ mental and social well-being and does not only consist of the absence of diseases and infirmities. On the other hand‚ wealth is defined as abundance of valuable possession. Having said that‚ what I mean when I say health is wealth
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New York: Facts On File‚ Inc. 1983 [9] Rawson‚ Hugh [10] Samovar‚ L.A. et al. Communication between Cultures. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 2000. [11] Concise Oxford Dictionary [14] 邓炎昌‚ 刘润清. 语言与文化. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社‚ 1989. [15] 冯广义. 语境适应论. 中央民族大学硕士毕业论文‚ 1997. [16] 刘纯豹. A Dictionary of Euphemism. 江苏： 江苏教育出版社‚ 1990. [17] 束定芳‚ 徐金元 [18] 张拱贵. 汉语委婉语词典. 北京： 北京语言文化大学出版社‚ 1996. [19] 张宇平. 委婉语. 北京： 新华出版社‚ 1998. B. Florence Kluckhohn’s Five Orientations American anthropologist‚ Florence
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through information age. If we look at the hotels in the city‚ Hotel’s are using the new form of technology‚ including the interior design‚ tools‚ room and kitchen equipments to provide the accurate service to guests. According to the Oxford English dictionary‚ Hospitality means the reception and entertainment of guests‚ visitors or strangers with liberality and good will. The Hotel and Restaurant Management Curriculum provides a synthesis of different skills‚ concepts and principles specializing in hospitality
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emotion of bliss and passion or a mediocre creation filled with misery and regret or whether we compare to the likes of Michelangelo or an unknown street artist‚ is truly in no one else’s but our own hands. What is life? Defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter including the capacity for growth‚ reproduction‚ functional activity‚ and continual change preceding death. But I would like to think of life as something deeper than
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Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck‚ wherein all the Men perished but himself. With an Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. London: printed for W. Taylor‚ 1719. Print. Oxford English Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press‚ 2005. Print. Ward‚ Aldolphus William‚ Sir‚ et al. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons‚ 1907-21; New York: Bartleby.com‚ 2000 (Web) April 1‚ 2009.
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LEXICAL DEVIATION Deviation corresponds to the traditional idea of poetic license: the writer of literature is allowed in contrast to the everyday speaker to deviate from rules‚ maxims‚ or conventions. These may involve the language‚ as well as literary traditions or expectations set up by the text itself. The result is some degree of surprise in the reader‚ and his/her attention is thereby drawn to the form of the text itself (rather than to its content). Cases of neologism‚ live metaphor‚ or ungrammatical
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With every generation come cries that teenagers are destroying the language with their newfangled slang. The current grievance harps on the way casual language used in texts and instant messages inhibits kids from understanding how to write and speak “properly.” While amateur language lovers might think this argument makes sense‚ experts say this is not at all the case. In fact‚ linguists say teenagers‚ far from destroying English‚ are innovating and enriching the language. First of all‚ abbreviations
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“humankind” and “study of‚” could be supported by the Oxford English Dictionary (2000)‚ which states: “Etymology: < Greek ἄνθρωπος man + -logy comb. form. Greek had ἀνθρωπολόγος (Aristotle) treating of man‚ of which *ἀνθρωπολογία was analogically the abst. n. Anthropologia
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PAGE NUMBER INTRODUCTION CONTENT CONCLUSION REFERENCE INTRODUCTION The original of the word "gadget" trace back to the 19th century. According to the Oxford English Dictionary‚ there is not necessarily true evidence for the use of "gadget" as a place holder name for a technical item whose precise name one can’t remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown’s 1886 book Spunyarn and Spindrift‚ A sailor boy’s log of a voyage
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