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Asked on March 26, 2021 in American english.
Other expressions such as yiddishhip and yish, are used in other countries.
What is your recommendation for using terms in Canadian English?I can see no alternative to Jews being the group introducing “Yiddishisms” by the “definition” and implication if by no other means.
Immigrants from other countries came from continental Europe and to America first. From there, their territory ceased. They were of lower social station but pushed upward in middle class bringing with them the Yiddish “language. From the lands where they live, not slums but which was most inaccessible to the aristocrats. ” Probably, the Middle class reflects the bulk of the current familiar usages. If it happened in urban centres the most likely the heaviest concentration were there and only a small number of people were working or living there.
How the language of Christianity spread into the mainstream? Is exposure the obvious answer?
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Synonyms.
According to various source, Aquatic Respiration appears to be the definition for the act of acquiring oxygen for a fish although “aquatic” would be redundant in context of the OP.
Literarily, inspire could be used, if only by its primary definition.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Single word requests.
Which product is probably one (any) of these. manual
- operated self-maintaining
- affordable
- practical
- effective
- low-maintenance
- trouble-free
- traditional
- easy
- of
one take. Automatic self-maintaining Manual Operation. Automatic Maintenance.
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