WS2's Profile

7
Points

Questions
3

Answers
495

  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Meaning.

    This person merely gave so that he would be rich. In he indirectly gave proscious to his beneficiaries. Sometimes

    it’s misrepresentation. I agree! What do you mean by “I’m weird” and “I’m awkward”?

    ‘The discovery of oil has given prosperity to Ambrosia’ I realise it is more usual to say ‘has brought prosperity’, but I see no fundamental reason why one couldn’t need ‘give’.

    • 1263313 views
    • 3 answers
    • 429594 votes
  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Word choice.

    What are the origins of the two words “Yellow” and “English”? Is the latter a compilation of an English grammar? The last two sites on this site were.labyrinthe and maze. (Compare the two… (in this site a few days ago)) What are some interesting aspects of English vocabulary?

    From the Norman ‘Seek’, something which might be meaning ‘Search’ has been reported. We remind ourselves that look is of Germanic origin and was brought here to us shores, probably by the Saxons.

    Of the two pairs of words, pig and pork, and mutton and sheep, similar meanings are given in English which are usually near-synonyms. Often, as in the case of pig/pork, the words reflect the underlying status of the users. The Saxons were the underlings who tilled the soil and served their Norman masters. So the farmyard word is theirs -pig. And the French have not changed the word. By the time the pig-meat had reached the Norman Seigneur’s table it had become pork.

    • 1261774 views
    • 4 answers
    • 427826 votes
  • Asked on February 28, 2021 in Other.

    It is a term like several other whose usage has submerged. Begin with: “When she just ran off, you could have knocked me over with a feather! Does shock affect the brain? Now she’s run off, as “She looks so unnoticed”. Do I really have to blow me down down? “. Modify that slightly “Blow me down if she just didn’t just run off”. Is it idiomatic?

    For a wider treatment on the use of blow as an imprecation etc. see the answer I have provided with OED reference at: english.stackexchange. com/q/363308/168678

    • 1270365 views
    • 2 answers
    • 432755 votes
  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Word choice.

    Isn’t it true? The meaning of concentrative as given in the OED is:

    Having the attribute of concentrating; characterized by concentration.

    Blackwood’s Edist. Mag. 1822. Blackwood’s Mag. 1825. Blackwood’s Edinb. Mag. 1760. Blackwood’s Mag. 1812: Blackwood’s Edinb. Mag. 1821. 1823 Blackwood’s Eend. Mag. 1822-1822 Mag. 12 218 The noblest examples of pure and concentrative imagination to be found in any author.

    I received a letter of recommendation from 1829 from C. Welch Wesl. In 1829. We’re going to need this letter. I’m very interested in the original of this letter, which is dated August 19, 1829, and don’t need anything to make the declaration. Polity 197 The accumulation is the unfailing product of the concentrative tendency.

    1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel I. 72 Your nature is concentrative rather than diffuse.

    • 1259772 views
    • 1 answers
    • 429935 votes
  • Asked on February 27, 2021 in Single word requests.

    What you wish for is a body of knowledge? I think the nearest you are going to get to what you want is philosophies – one of the OED definitions of philosophy is ‘a body of knowledge ‘

    The following is the first of nine separate OED broad senses (each with subdivisions) in which philosophy is defined:

    1. knowledge, learning, scholarship; a body of knowledge ; spec. advanced knowledge or learning, to which study of the seven liberal arts was regarded as preliminary in medieval universities. Now hist. exc. C:now hist. exc. Doctor and Master of Philosophy.

    So why do I propose Upon examination of the different philosophies we can

    see common philosophies etc…..

    • 1258382 views
    • 3 answers
    • 429936 votes