Find John Clare’s POEMS CHIEFLY FROM MANUSCRIPT in our library. Edmund Blunden, who edited the volume, writes: For the present volume over two thousand poems by Clare have been considered and compared; of which over two-thirds have not been published.…
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100s of Words for Ice – a “precious knowledge”
“…focus attention on selected aspects of the world as it is taken to be by other cognitive systems, and provide intricate and highly specialised perspectives from which to view them, crucially involving human interests and concerns even in the simplest…
Almuce, Otototoi, Plutomania, Foolosophy, Cockamamie, Septemfluous
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin almussa.Etymology: < post-classical Latin almussa, almucia, almucium, amusium, etc. amice n.2 Compare earlier amice n.2 1, aumusse n. A hood, cape, or similar garment made of or lined with grey fur and worn by a member of a religious order (esp. a canon). Cf. amice n.2 1. The exact garment has varied at…
“You make them up? I will never look up a word in the dictionary again!” – In case you thought the dictionary came from God, it was not God, it was an unemployed first year linguist …And how the word F*ck got into Merriam-Webster…
From an interview with Lila Gleitman (professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania; an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children’s learning of their first language): … 19:18: Lila Gleitman: “And you won’t work with me. You will work with –” And…
Joseph Brodsky on the importance of language
Intransigent, Niveous
Mettle
Adroit
Septemfluous, Nidgetty
Alice in Wonderland (1865) Lewis, Carroll
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