Example sentences for: dosae

How can you use “dosae” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Yet, the citations they give afford a clue to the real status of this and numerous other items in DOSAE : This wall chart, attractive ... and tweetalig nogal [bilingual, what's more], is to be distributed to all hospitals.... and Four years in the charge office as a fraud detective.

  • There is certainly a need for words of Afrikaans origin that recur in English texts (often for local color effect) to be glossed somewhere: a reference work like the DOSAE might be more convenient for readers than an Afrikaans or Xhosa or some other dictionary.

  • DOSAE shows attention to detail, provides extensive definitions with detailed cross references, has broad phonetic transcriptions and, above all, provides delightful illustrative sentences from historical and contemporary sources.

  • It is also through this and earlier editions of the DOSAE that one learned, to one's surprise, of the South African provenance of words like off-load unload, bottle store liquor store, butchery butcher's shop, and bond mortagage bond.

  • The DOSAE is in some respects a reflection of the contact history of South Africa, played out in terms of the English lexicon.


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