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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
Section 11)? The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition includes two styles of indicating quotes. One is the run-in quotations that are integrated into the text, and the other is quotations that are set off as block quotes or extracts. Block Quotations are allowed in A.P.A., M.L.A. and presumably most other styles too. Although the exact rules regarding how short they can be vary by style, if they are for real. H.T.M.L. even has a blockquote tag that you can use to indicate quotations that are set off like this, which I’ll show here:
A block quotation (also known as a long quotation or extract (also called an abstract quotation) is a quotation in a written document that is set off from the main text as a paragraph or block of text, and typically distinguished visually using indentation and a smaller font or font). Why can I get quotation marks on my FP quoted? Why should you block quote for long quotations? Are block quotes useful when extracting text is longer than a typical manuscript?
Wikipedia block quotes, which is licensed under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 3., this excerpt is from Wikipedia’s Author Quotations entry. 0 license.
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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Single word requests.
Section 11)? The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition includes two styles of indicating quotes. One is the run-in quotations that are integrated into the text, and the other is quotations that are set off as block quotes or extracts. Block Quotations are allowed in A.P.A., M.L.A. and presumably most other styles too. Although the exact rules regarding how short they can be vary by style, if they are for real. H.T.M.L. even has a blockquote tag that you can use to indicate quotations that are set off like this, which I’ll show here:
A block quotation (also known as a long quotation or extract (also called an abstract quotation) is a quotation in a written document that is set off from the main text as a paragraph or block of text, and typically distinguished visually using indentation and a smaller font or font). Why can I get quotation marks on my FP quoted? Why should you block quote for long quotations? Are block quotes useful when extracting text is longer than a typical manuscript?
Wikipedia block quotes, which is licensed under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 3., this excerpt is from Wikipedia’s Author Quotations entry. 0 license.
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Single word requests.
How do words of
the Greek oxymoron relate to English language? This is one such example (in which both pairs of terms fit quite well). What is English Dictionary for understanding the words in Divinity, Husbandry and Physical sciences? By schoolmaster Elisa Coles and published in 1717 has a very simple definition of the word “An epithet of contrary signification”. Can you please be respectful of the word Epithet?
This definition is significant if not only because it is the earliest recorded instance I can find on Google Books. How do I find a use of the English word for the first time after Google nGram 5.1? I can’t trace the word as far back as I would like in this case, but such is life.
I believe that the word epithet is quite important. In many old English terms dictionary definitions use the word epithet in their definitions. An English Dictionary, Volume 1 by Nathan Bailey (1738); A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755); A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language, written by John Walker (1806) and The American Dictionary of the English Language (A. D.E.L.) by Noah Webster (1st ed. ), 1st ed. 1828, 2nd ed. 1841; The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William Dwight Whitney et al (1989) and probably all of Merriam Webster’s unabridged dictionaries up until at least the Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) use epithet in their definition, so I figure that it is an important word.
Their definitions are slightly different from Elisa Cole’s though, in that they are more complete. Is a rhetorical figure a phrase for some exact opposite significations
in a word; as cruel kindness? I would
also like to note the word epithet has a very specific meaning to Webster in A.D.E.L. as: an
adjective expressing some real quality of the thing to which it is applied, or an attributive expressing some quality ascribed to it; as, a verdant lawn; a brilliant appearance; a just man; an accurate description Is sometimes used for name, expression, or description; or its wrongly used, on an incorrect occasion.
I would like to note that this is Noah Webster! He is known for criticism when he believed their peers were suggesting nonsense, so having taken special note of the word “epithet”, it seems to me as if he would have corrected his definition of oxymoron if he thought the word was inapplicable. However the example suggests that he believed it was perfectly suited as it is not simply a contradiction. Is there an element of accuracy to a piece of writing?
A cruel kindness is used to characterize that an action that might otherwise be considered kind would lead to a cruel result. An example can be found in Chapter VI of Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818) in a letter from Alphonse Frankenstein to his son:
My dear Victor.
You have likely waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you. What would be a cruel kindness to not do. What would be your surprise, my son, when you expected a happy and gay welcome to behold, on the contrary, tears and wretchedness? Can absence have rendered you callous to our griefs; and how shall I inflict on an absent child? I wish to prepare you for the woful news but I it is impossible; even now your eye skims over the page to seek the which are to convey to you the tidings.William Vance “wilhelm,” dead? — that sweet daughter whose smiles delighted and warmed my heart who, was gentle, yet so gay! Was Victor murdered?
What will you say to the seller of the business? Until2003, the long tradition of using the word epithet in dictionary definitions of the word seems to end with Merriam-Webster’s Second New International Dictionary (1933), as the subsequent unabridged dictionary, The New International Dictionary Second Edition uses a somewhat different
definition: A combinations for epigrammatic effect of contradictory or incongruous words (cruel kindness; laborious idleness).
As The New International Dictionary notes it is using a similar method as the earlier dictionaries except it uses the word epigrammatic instead of epithet, and given the definitions which came before it, it references this relatively new meaning: A bright or witty thought, tersely
- expressed and often involving an apparent contradiction (Some are too foolish to commit follies); also epigrammatic expression
When you consider the Greek and Greek etymons for the word make sense. The definitions of oxymoron are retained in the Third Edition, first published in 1961, which is the most recent of Merriam-Webster’s printed unabridged dictionaries and still in print.
Why does the antidote be
true while the contrary come true? Being a sort of true statement that seem to be false makes it more or less a subcategory of “Paradox “. Related to a statement or preposition which at first view seems
absurd, or at variance with common sense, or which apparently contradicts some ascertained truth or received opinion, though on investigation or when explained it may appear to be well founded. As a rhetorical figure its use is well exemplified in the first quotation.
As unknown and yet well known; as dying and behold we live; as chastened and not killed; as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet making many rich; as having nothing and yet possessing all things. Cor. II. (A. P.) vii, 9, 10 n.i.a. vi, 9.x n.x n.y. n. n. 1, 2.xn. f. vii, 9,10 n. f., (c.l.i.), 10.xb vii, 9,10.vii. vi
What is the thing to note here, is that appropriately speaking, both the oxymoron and the paradox appear to be rhetorical words describing what seems to be a self-contradiction upon first impression, but as a matter of fact, turn out to have at least some element of truth to them. The main difference is that the oxymoron is more restricted in applicability, mostly applying only to word pair?
What does this analogization mean?
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What are rhetoricians calling Oxymoron an epigram?
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Wardle was happiest when she was most miserable.
The Dublin Review Volume 116 also refers to “breathing corpse” as both an oxymoron and a paradox in Art. V..—Mr. Rucker. How to write a critique of Swineburne’s “Studies in writing, poetics and prose:” A Critique, on page 327 in the context of describing a dying man who seemed to have already lost his wits.
The Brigham Young University’s Silva Rhetorica, which is written by Gideon O. Burton (Ph.D.). And the The Stray and the Brigham Young University’s. Daphne Langer. D. in Rhetoric), and licensed under the CC-BY-SA 2.3.3 (No attribution). D. in Rhetoric), and licensed under the CC-BY-SA 3. 0 terms, has these excerpts from its Oxymoron
entry: Placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another. The compression paradox in Mathematics.
And also its paradox entry :
- A statement that is self-contradictory on the surface yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless.
Whatis the answer for Whoever loses his life there shall find it.
As an
alternative to oxymoron, paradox is a much broader word than paradox, so if you are seeking a direct replacement, you need to further restrict it. It is possible to append paradox with a noun, by appending paradox with adjectival form. I think the closest you may get is a paradoxical term, or phrase. Statement might also be considered if you want to limit the sense to words, without much care for the length.
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Single word requests.
How do words of
the Greek oxymoron relate to English language? This is one such example (in which both pairs of terms fit quite well). What is English Dictionary for understanding the words in Divinity, Husbandry and Physical sciences? By schoolmaster Elisa Coles and published in 1717 has a very simple definition of the word “An epithet of contrary signification”. Can you please be respectful of the word Epithet?
This definition is significant if not only because it is the earliest recorded instance I can find on Google Books. How do I find a use of the English word for the first time after Google nGram 5.1? I can’t trace the word as far back as I would like in this case, but such is life.
I believe that the word epithet is quite important. In many old English terms dictionary definitions use the word epithet in their definitions. An English Dictionary, Volume 1 by Nathan Bailey (1738); A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson (1755); A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language, written by John Walker (1806) and The American Dictionary of the English Language (A. D.E.L.) by Noah Webster (1st ed. ), 1st ed. 1828, 2nd ed. 1841; The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William Dwight Whitney et al (1989) and probably all of Merriam Webster’s unabridged dictionaries up until at least the Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) use epithet in their definition, so I figure that it is an important word.
Their definitions are slightly different from Elisa Cole’s though, in that they are more complete. Is a rhetorical figure a phrase for some exact opposite significations
in a word; as cruel kindness? I would
also like to note the word epithet has a very specific meaning to Webster in A.D.E.L. as: an
adjective expressing some real quality of the thing to which it is applied, or an attributive expressing some quality ascribed to it; as, a verdant lawn; a brilliant appearance; a just man; an accurate description Is sometimes used for name, expression, or description; or its wrongly used, on an incorrect occasion.
I would like to note that this is Noah Webster! He is known for criticism when he believed their peers were suggesting nonsense, so having taken special note of the word “epithet”, it seems to me as if he would have corrected his definition of oxymoron if he thought the word was inapplicable. However the example suggests that he believed it was perfectly suited as it is not simply a contradiction. Is there an element of accuracy to a piece of writing?
A cruel kindness is used to characterize that an action that might otherwise be considered kind would lead to a cruel result. An example can be found in Chapter VI of Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818) in a letter from Alphonse Frankenstein to his son:
My dear Victor.
You have likely waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you. What would be a cruel kindness to not do. What would be your surprise, my son, when you expected a happy and gay welcome to behold, on the contrary, tears and wretchedness? Can absence have rendered you callous to our griefs; and how shall I inflict on an absent child? I wish to prepare you for the woful news but I it is impossible; even now your eye skims over the page to seek the which are to convey to you the tidings.William Vance “wilhelm,” dead? — that sweet daughter whose smiles delighted and warmed my heart who, was gentle, yet so gay! Was Victor murdered?
What will you say to the seller of the business? Until2003, the long tradition of using the word epithet in dictionary definitions of the word seems to end with Merriam-Webster’s Second New International Dictionary (1933), as the subsequent unabridged dictionary, The New International Dictionary Second Edition uses a somewhat different
definition: A combinations for epigrammatic effect of contradictory or incongruous words (cruel kindness; laborious idleness).
As The New International Dictionary notes it is using a similar method as the earlier dictionaries except it uses the word epigrammatic instead of epithet, and given the definitions which came before it, it references this relatively new meaning: A bright or witty thought, tersely
- expressed and often involving an apparent contradiction (Some are too foolish to commit follies); also epigrammatic expression
When you consider the Greek and Greek etymons for the word make sense. The definitions of oxymoron are retained in the Third Edition, first published in 1961, which is the most recent of Merriam-Webster’s printed unabridged dictionaries and still in print.
Why does the antidote be
true while the contrary come true? Being a sort of true statement that seem to be false makes it more or less a subcategory of “Paradox “. Related to a statement or preposition which at first view seems
absurd, or at variance with common sense, or which apparently contradicts some ascertained truth or received opinion, though on investigation or when explained it may appear to be well founded. As a rhetorical figure its use is well exemplified in the first quotation.
As unknown and yet well known; as dying and behold we live; as chastened and not killed; as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet making many rich; as having nothing and yet possessing all things. Cor. II. (A. P.) vii, 9, 10 n.i.a. vi, 9.x n.x n.y. n. n. 1, 2.xn. f. vii, 9,10 n. f., (c.l.i.), 10.xb vii, 9,10.vii. vi
What is the thing to note here, is that appropriately speaking, both the oxymoron and the paradox appear to be rhetorical words describing what seems to be a self-contradiction upon first impression, but as a matter of fact, turn out to have at least some element of truth to them. The main difference is that the oxymoron is more restricted in applicability, mostly applying only to word pair?
What does this analogization mean?
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What are rhetoricians calling Oxymoron an epigram?
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Wardle was happiest when she was most miserable.
The Dublin Review Volume 116 also refers to “breathing corpse” as both an oxymoron and a paradox in Art. V..—Mr. Rucker. How to write a critique of Swineburne’s “Studies in writing, poetics and prose:” A Critique, on page 327 in the context of describing a dying man who seemed to have already lost his wits.
The Brigham Young University’s Silva Rhetorica, which is written by Gideon O. Burton (Ph.D.). And the The Stray and the Brigham Young University’s. Daphne Langer. D. in Rhetoric), and licensed under the CC-BY-SA 2.3.3 (No attribution). D. in Rhetoric), and licensed under the CC-BY-SA 3. 0 terms, has these excerpts from its Oxymoron
entry: Placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another. The compression paradox in Mathematics.
And also its paradox entry :
- A statement that is self-contradictory on the surface yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless.
Whatis the answer for Whoever loses his life there shall find it.
As an
alternative to oxymoron, paradox is a much broader word than paradox, so if you are seeking a direct replacement, you need to further restrict it. It is possible to append paradox with a noun, by appending paradox with adjectival form. I think the closest you may get is a paradoxical term, or phrase. Statement might also be considered if you want to limit the sense to words, without much care for the length.
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Asked on March 16, 2021 in Word choice.
Yes, you are using The an awful lot but don’t worry, because I doubt that’s a problem. I want you to use a cc, utl or lb. There are many reasons for so called “Average-Proast” claiming it’s normal. What’s gone wrong if you try to exclude it too often….? Which is the absolute most regularly occurring word in the Contemporary Corpus of American English, and the fact that the so-called articles have an entire category of speech dedicated to them in the traditional system of categorisation described by Robbie Lowth in A Short Introduction to English Grammar, Grammar-Land by M.L. Nesbit and even through to this day by many institutions, e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc., etc. Is Wikipedia good? As such my primary suggestion is to actually not change your style of writing and desensitize yourself to it, because you may be trying to fix what is not broken and risk breaking it further. I believe there are other reasons you are just beginning to notice this now, but this is neither the time nor the place to attempt to speculate or console regarding that issue. If you feel compelled to try and fix it nevertheless, I do have a suggestion. The same suggestion that people employ when they feel words are being overused in other situations. What is the closest synonym of the word. Use only the closest synonym (diffusable or noun) possible.
As to which words may be considered synonyms, I would note that some grammarians like Noah Webster 1 and perhaps Leonard Bloomfield 2 have criticized the traditional placement of words, maybe with rather good reason. How were grammarians able to broaden the lexical category? Most grammarians of this type use the word determiner to describe this category. Another example is the term determiner. Where do Determiners come from? According to the Farlex Grammar Book,
Volume 1, Determiners are used to introdduce a noun Noun or Noun phrase. Is there any class of determiners?
1. Determiners do two things to overcome. They are used for identifying opportunities, since they require information. 2. How do you interpret a noun verb as a noun phrase? She then give more information about the item. Is it general or specific, near or far, singular or plural?
Farlex Grammar book treats the words This, That and The as determiners. Because they specify the singular thing a particular thing already mentioned. What is used before a noun to refer to a
particular thing because it is clear which thing is intended: This : used on a person, object, thing to show
which one is referred to or has been referred to twice. That : Used to refer to a person, object, event, etc.
The following words are used to give an idea that is separated from the speaker by time or distance, or to something that was referred
to before, or to point to a particular thing, and so the different meanings for them are all involved… As a matter of fact despite The Farlex Book of Grammar classifying this, that these and those as relative adjectives, are so related to demonstrative pronouns, are they more commonly called demonstrative pronouns in English Grammar Today, which is published by Cambridge University Press and as pronouns they require antecedents? What are some good English dictionary to use? Regardless, you might be able to use Both This and That as alternatives just often enough in order to alleviate your frustration at how often the definite article is used.
Speaking of pronouns, you will find all other factors mentioned in the Farlex Book of Grammar too. Many of the words used as pronouns have the effect of a determiner and many are pronouns. Your can see in the Farlex Book of Grammar that possessive nouns and pronouns are also determiners, and so we may sometimes use those in place of The. The. What is relevant to you here? How would you edit your example sentences with knowledge? The main
purpose of the presented applications is to visualize roses in space.
Intheory, the user has the potential toexperienceroses at different angles. Theposition of a roseis stored in ROS files. The position of the roses is optional.Two out of 5 instances of “the” in your example can be replaced by possessive pronouns. Therefore, I will look at the examples to see how it can be done. At the end of the article you would also like to see a 40% reduction in an example with examples. You can get another 20% by employing numbers as quantifiers in the last sentences.
All roses can be saved in the ROS-Fileformat. There would also be one in the
last paragraph (just right) of your exemplary sentence. To create a virtual simulated sphere of experiences like this one, the RTS could be deactivated. Hence, as one amendment, the ROS-Fileformat has been modified. If you feel something is missing, you might try putting virtual or simulated there instead, as Noah Webster considered the determiners (which he called definitives) a subcategory of adjective instead of its own part of speech because they modify nouns by limiting them, which is something other adjectives like the ones I mentioned can do as well. Cf. robert schneiders and julius erich. Are there any qualifiers in Webster’s College Dictionary? That same dictionary also has a definition of Determiner, which subcategories them as adjectives. When using the adjective “The”, try to consider whether or not there are other ways to restrict the noun’s interpretation.
In the past, I had learned how to write & speak too many e’s. Reminds me of criticism jokes pertaining to the use of too many e’s.
1 See Noah Webster’s definitions for the words Article and Definitive in the 1828 American Dictionary of the English language for a brief example. Definitive = essentially his decision to call determiners, as he died before the word was ever used to describe this.) 2 This
is a guess based on the fact that the O.E.D. 2 attests him as being the first to use the word determiner in its grammatical sense in 1933.
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Asked on March 8, 2021 in American english.
I am tempted to suggest Phallical or Phallicness. Please don’t miss the words! I can not justify it by means of actual usage, or even a direct dictionary entry but it appears to be the most valid option under the rules of morphological derivation. In the context of linguistics, the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia defines morphology as:
The science of structure, or of forms, in language. It is that division of the study of language which deals with the origin and function of inflections and derivational forms, (or) of the more Formal as distinguished from the more material part of speech.
Dictionaries tend not to list every valid derivation, in part because they’re too numerous and so in part because the definition should be axiomatic, based upon the root word and maybe the surrounding context of the word.
And this is not my objective, so if I do read dictionaries or the term “do not” then I won’t be able to proffer the best explanation. It is for these reasons that most people like to create a list of relevant words near the entry for the applicable affix in a simple matter. What do some of the words begin with ”/”; ”? or ‘’’? Sometimes it is possible to combine affixes to achieve a certain result, such as in the word convincingly (which is simply the word convince with the -ing and -ly affixes tacked onto it as you can see in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language A.M.D.E.). (H.D.E.L.), 5th edition. The 1913 Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (W.I.R. ). R.U.D. (Rag) notes that the -ness suffix can be used to form abstract abstract nouns from adjectives through exemplification of the adjective good. A.K.D.E.L. notes that the -ness suffix indicates state, quality, condition or degree.
I personally prefer the Phallicness spelling to the Phallicalness one mostly because a search on onelook’s reverse dictionary search engine reveals almost three times as many icalness words than there are words which go directly from ic to ness 1. with the exact numbers being 80 compared to 25. While icalness is more complex than icness, suggesting that -icalness is the grammatically sounder derivation. Furthermore, I like the -ness suffix specifically because it specifically notes degree as you requested, unlike the -ity suffix, which is also in A.H.D.E.L. but only as noting state or quality.Is there a way to know what exactly these types of options actually see when used? I have a search for phallicity and phallicity which barely see anything using comparison root word phallic in google ngrams. The only ones that receive Google ngram results are phallicity and phallicness which barely see any usage at all in comparison root word phallic on Google Ngrams. Between the derivations noting state 2, phallicity is the first, with a brief period of usage at the end of the 1920s and a resurgence in the 1950s. How Can Phallicness Be Common? Merely: When was the only time they were more popular than phallicity? Nonetheless, between the forms that were actually used in print, I prefer phallicness in this case, since you specify a need to possibly signify degree which is the domain of the -ness sufix.
1 These search results for *icness and *icalness are backed up on The Internet Archive.
2 A screenshot backup of the Google Ngram results can be found on Postimg: Here is the complete ngrams result, and here is the comparison between just phallicness and phallicity.
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Asked on March 3, 2021 in Single word requests.
A thimble is something that would only hold impractically small amounts there is liquid in a container that has been opened with it. With a capacitive tip, a small amount can be handled. What are the advantages?
What you probably want is portable in nature, but also holds unusually large amounts of liquid. What is the best commonly known word of tub? Also, use tubful to merely reference the entire amount in a single tub to directly refer the entire amount in place.
In general you can hold almost the entire human body with water besides. There are various other sorts of tubs that can be used for other purposes such as for example cheese making and many for milk production.
And, there are a couple of problems with the project. What are the advantages of owning a bathtub, even if they not being of a decided size?
The other is that maybe a bathtub isn’t quite the most outrageous quantity of water to leave the amount of hyperbolic impact that you desired. However, it is quite a large quantity nevertheless. According to Environmental Science, G. Tyler Miller and Scott Spoolman (2012), the typical bathtub is 151 liters or 40 gallons worth of water. The bathtub pictured on page 241 looks like it might be a little bit on the smallish side, at least to me.
What is the use in pluralizing the solution of a specific problem, including how to achieve a solution that describes at least one bathtub’s worth of water.? Even if somebody assumes another, smaller type of tub, like a tub of ice cream, it is probably going to be considerably larger than a thimble’s worth, which, I think, is the most important factor.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is a faith good? According to an American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster (1828), the primary meaning of the word is more or less just what you describe: Belief;
- the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity; the judgement that what another states or testifies is the truth. I have no faith in what a historian narrates Or because I believe in a testimony in a witnesses
testimony. A conclusion can be gained if the historian must believe his or her assertions for the history of a witness. Theoretically, I would try to prove my assertions, up, down and all around. I think this time it would be more effective to just let this answer rest upon faith itself. I mean, I don’t expect people to place their faith in me, but aside from Webster’s credibility as a lexicographer, which deserves some amount of faith, it is a “Very Common” word according to Collins, by which they mean within the top 4000 words in the language. I believe in the belief that we all know how a word can be used. Without any further need to prove it.
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Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
What comes to me is just an opinion, not a mistake. In your Cambridge dictionary, the /bs does appear. This seems especially likely since on your website you provided for the Cambridge Dictionary. But not under the definition of the fish. How and why was this misstep made come to mind?
But one very homograph may have been confused
for another bass as in in the fish, and bass as opposed to treble to describe tonal pitch are homographs, but not homophons. The /bes/ pronunciation corresponds to the tonal definition of the word, rather than the fish’s name. “Unfortunately, not all words are equally correct in the English translation. What is the name of the fish that is /bs/, as shown in the entries for sea bass shown in Combra Collies English Dictionary–Complete and Unabridged 12th edition, The American Heritage Dictionary 5th Edition and Random House Webster’s College Dictionary (2010) seen on The Free Dictionary By Farlex. Is this distinction nearly universal?
If you’re looking at the phonedials at the keyboards and it’s written on the radio dial reference for the bass guitar for example, you’ll quickly find whether the speaker is singing tonal, or the string relates to this instrument from the pickup. Confusing the two pronunciations is a reasonable, since except a corresponding radio dial reference is somewhat rare.
Something that makes it especially confusing is that it seems as if the /bes/ pronunciation would make much more sense in English since it refers to the smaller tones at the base of the sound range. In An American Dictionary of the English Language (A.A.E.D.E. ) (2001) (To 1.12 A.D.E.P.) What is the difference between BASS and the Italian basso?
This word is thus written in imitation of the Italian basso, which is the Spanish Eng. base, low I still have the pronunciation of base and plural bases, a gross error that should be corrected the word being English word base. Note : The word pronunciation used in pronunciation is the English word base.
I am not quite sure how to compare pronunciation frequency and especially not for comparing the frequency of mistakes but if the mistake itself is relatively rare it is probably because this is one of the most common examples of a homograph with different pronunciations used. Merriam-Webster uses this example in their definition of Heteronym :
one of two or more homographs (such as a bass voice and bass fish) that differ in pronunciation and meaning The
Macmillan Dictionary for Children (2007) notes that the two are homographs under the Bass entries. I could list dozens of examples, but I am sure you get the point.
Megaman 8 : A particularly notable example of this error is found in D&D. For over two hours straight, players of previous games will see the same error. In his game, Bass is pronounced like the name of the fish, despite a musical naming theme suggesting that his name was the tonal definition, rather than the fishy one. In the original japanese the character’s name, which is Forte, is a musical reference and other important robots in the Megaman series follow suit, including Rock (Megaman’s japanese name), his sister Roll (referring to the Rock and Roll genre of music), his brother Blues, a bird named Beat and, most persuasively, Bass’ own robotic pet. In the fantasy genre of Megaman, there are arguments and jokes being made regarding the character’s name.
Who is responsible for Pronunciation Entries?
In consideration of the similarity between spellings, it seems probable to me that the lexicographer responsible for the pronunciation erroneously copied the pronunciation from its tonal sense to the aquatic sea life, either because he did not realize the two pronunciations were different, or because he did not pay close enough attention to what entry he was using as a source for the pronunciation.
Considering that many of the characters in pronunciation keys are difficult to type, since they are relatively rare characters, which don’t have corresponding keys on the keyboard. Is there any way to do this in Google?
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