Example sentences for: confuting

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  • Thus, kick the bucket is listed in the category E29e Pork (because of its presumed etymology, Slaughtered pigs are hung by the heels from the bucket or beam) while go west appears under G12e Sunset, bite the dust (questionably defined as brought low) appears at C10f Winning and losing the battle, buy the farm (which I cannot find in the OED ) is listed under E7a Land (where it is labeled as an Americanism, confuting my understanding that it originated with the R.A.F., early in WWII), and cash in your chips/ checks goes under K77c Roulette (which might be all right for a British English classification, but I think that Americans would expect to find it at K81 Poker ).

  • There can be no confuting the fact that the grammar of modern English—that is, the English in use for the past two centuries—differs little from that of earlier stages of the language: after all, languages are sorted and distinguished by linguists on the basis of their grammars, not their lexicons.


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