World Dictionary describes courage as “an attitude of facing and dealing with anything recognized as dangerous‚ difficult or painful‚ instead of withdrawing from it‚” and The American Heritage Dictionary gives a similar explanation. While The Shorter Oxford Dictionary concurs with this meaning‚ it states that the primary definition is “spirit‚ mind‚ or disposition.” Courage is not just found in the veteran soldier who can display shiny medals or in the policeman who bravely risks his life for justice
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of melancholia and a mentally repressive disorder. Now nostalgia has a positive meaning. It is classified as the term to describe the exact feeling felt when thinking of past memories. Nostalgia does have a positive effect on an individual. The Oxford English Dictionary defines nostalgia as sentimental longing for a period of the past. Merriam-Webster Dictionary says is it pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again
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voiced your opinion on texting by creating the article ‘Why I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language’ and like you have said what you think‚ I must express my opinion too. Firstly‚ the way you have conveyed your emotion towards the Oxford English Dictionary seems immature‚ your words: ‘I yield to no man in my love for one’ is overly hyperbolic‚ also: ‘They are as close to my heart as they are to my desk because they are so much more than a useful tool’ – Your obsessive passion towards
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English: Blog post 1: John Humphreys thinks that the OED has let him down by modernising. It’s done this by removing the hyphen from over 16000 words he describes that he finds it daft that we ‘don’t have time to reach for the hyphen key’ as its only one tiny key stroke. He feels that text speak is pointless and doesn’t save time as ‘the recipient of the message has to spend ten minutes trying to translate it’. He thinks that the text speak of the new generation is ruining the English language
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is defined‚ has a history‚ be written with high intellect‚ and will forever impact the human race and the people that live through it. Literature is defined as‚ “written works‚ especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit” (Oxford Dictionary). Literature is the historical writings of past civilizations as well as the present that will stay as the voice and life of the people that lived through the time; however‚ it is the works of extreme literary intellect that stands as the
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Abstract In English language‚ there are many fixed‚ identifiable‚ non-idiomatic phrases and construction. Such groups of words are called recurrent combinations‚ fixed combination or collocation. Collocation fall into two major groups: grammatical collocation and lexical collocation. For people who regard the English language as a foreign language or second language‚ it’s so difficult to express it as perfect. This “mini research paper” talks about “Cultural Effect on English Language Collocation
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English Words ‘The air is always thick with our verbal emissions. There are so many things we want to tell the world. Some of them are important‚ some of them are not. But we talk anyway. A life without words would be a horrendous privation.’ (from the Introduction) Words and language‚ keys to human identity‚ are fascinating subjects. The aim of this book is to arouse curiosity about English words and about the nature of language in general‚ especially among students who are not intending
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Since I moved to Oxford in 2011‚ I seem to be related to the woodland area “Shotover Park” with “Brasenose Wood” as one of the more ancient parts. When I was living in Headington‚ I entered the woods from the North and the West‚ exploring large areas of the wood‚ learning about the different types of trees and the local Wildlife. Now that I live in Little Milton‚ I have the eastern part of “Shotover park” close by‚ only ten minutes drive away in Wheatley. Here I want to focus on the part of Shotover
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dictionaries: Longman’s Active Dictionary and Oxford Student’s Dictionary. Both dictionaries are intended for the intermediate level but they don’t have the same features. Longman’s Dictionary has considerably more words and phrases than Oxford’s Dictionary. Oxford’s Dictionary has 42‚000 words and phrases‚ Longman’s has 3‚000 more. Also Longman’s Dictionary has a larger number of examples reching up to 25‚000. This is 1‚500 more examples than the Oxford Dictionary. In comparing the number
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based on corpus. 2. Some Basic Concepts Major gender discriminations can be reflected in the aspects of sexism and andocentrism in English vocabulary‚ whose definitions are as follow. 2.1 Sexism Sexism has many various definitions in language. Oxford English Dictionary says sexism is the assumption that one sex is superior to the other and the resultant discrimination practiced against members of the supposed inferior sex‚ esp. by men against women. The definition of this term in the Collins
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