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    Cited: "melancholy‚ n.1". OED Online. November 2010. Oxford University Press. 27 February 2011 . Melville‚ Herman. "Bartleby‚ the Scrivener." The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. ’Comp ’. R.V. Cassill‚ Richard Bausch. New York: W.W. Norton & Company‚ 2006. Print. "pity‚ n.". OED Online. November 2010. Oxford University Press. 27 February 2011

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    (2005)‚ Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than Others?. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Channel‚ J. (1994)‚ Vague Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Eckert‚ P. (1989). Jocks and Burnouts: Social identity in the high school. New York: Teachers College Press. Green‚ J. (1988)‚ The Slang Thesaurus. London: Penguin Books. Jelínková‚ H. (2011)‚ Slang Used among British and Czech Teenagers. Zlín: Tomas Bata University in Zlín. Oxford University Press (2012). slang‚ n.3. [ONLINE] Available

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    Dictionary of Contemporary English (5th ed.). Vol. 23 Iss: 6‚ pp.32 – 34. Ehrlich‚ B Graddol‚ D. (1997). the Future of English? a Guide to forecasting the popularity of the English language in the 21st century. OED. (2013). Recent updates to the oxford English dictionary. Zapata Becerra‚ A. A. (2000). Handbook of general and applied linguistics. Trabajo de Ascenso sin publicar

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    HHHHHlhttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/screenager?s=t Gove‚ P. D. (2012). Webster’s third new international dictionary. Google play store‚ Available from kkkkkkkhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.merriamwebster&hl=en Oxford. (2013). Oxford english dictionary 2013 edition. Oxford dictionaries‚ Retrieved from kkkkkkkhttp://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/screenager?q=screenager Quinion‚ M. (1998‚ Jan. 10). Screenager. Worldwide words‚ Retrieved from kkkkkkkhttp://worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-scr1

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    CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE NIGERIAN ARMY ENGINEERS TO NATION BUILDING: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS INTRODUCTION 1. Nations of the world set objectives which they continually strive to achieve. These objectives which are regarded to be of benefit to the citizens of the country are collectively known as national interest. The extent to which a nation can achieve its national interest and indeed the influence it wields in the international community depends largely on its level of development. Nation

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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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    disorder in the dress /Kindles in clothes a wantonness/" describes the speaker’s comments about the dress and the woman. The word "disorder" (1) is an important word in Herrick’s poem because it defines the meanings of the poem very well. According to Oxford English Dictionary‚ the word "’disorder’" it is an absence or undoing of order or regular arrangement; confusion‚ confused state or condition. It is the feeling the speaker is experiencing as he examines the woman and it also describes what he thinks

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    References: Burchfield‚ Robert. The English language. Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 1985. Calvet‚ Louis. -J.Linguistique et colonialism: petit traité de glottophagie. Paris: Payot‚ 1974. Cooper‚ Robert L. “A framework for the study of language spread” in Cooper (1982) Language Spread: Studies in Diffusion and

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    Question 1: Rite Wail (1).The novel is about writing‚ about rites‚ about whaling- especially right whaling-and about wailing. Explore the ways in which these two words at the start of the novel encapsulate the world of the novel as a whole. Try to focus your answer on the language of three or four key passages in the novel. “That Deadman dance” by Kim Scott is a powerful yet delicate interpretation of words. The reader is presented with two distinct and memorable words in the prologue ‘rite’

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    thoughtfully addresses the following prompt using one (1) of the creative texts listed below: Discuss how one of the texts below portrays (and ask a reader to think about) the relationship between health‚ illness‚ and animality in terms of boundaries. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “boundary” as “that which serves to indicate the . . . limits of

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