Example sentences for: bryson

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  • The article by Bill Bryson [XVII, 4] on the vagaries of English abroad unfortunately also serves to illustrate the lack of linguistic understanding which exists between our two countries.

  • Philip Weinberg's EPISTOLA [ XVIII, 2] regarding the Russian word for railroad station in Bryson's English Know-How, No Problem [ XVIII, 4] deserves a comment: While loan words often undergo vast changes in meaning when introduced into a new language, the change from the whole to one of at least two of its parts (assuming there would have been a First Class waiting room for a Volksaal [ sic ] to make sense) in this case seemed too far-fetched.

  • Bill Bryson, an American who lives in Yorkshire, has written a spirited, engaging book about English.

  • Mr. Bryson was over-hasty to condemn that bomber jacket in Hamburg as “gloriously meaningless” [XVIII, 2], for anyone who has spent time on a farm would recognize it as intended for people supplying chickenfeed to egg producers: what it bears is a good plain advertisement for the product.

  • I read Bill Bryson's article “English Know-How, No Problem” with much interest and amusement.


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