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Example sentences for: english

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' Surf in Australian English, of course, has this general meaning but is used mostly of the sea, and particularly the surf, as a place of recreation.
Anyone who has any doubts about the flush nature of the English lexicon and the propensity of its speakers to coin metaphors should attend to these two works (at least), for they deal with only a small segment of culture.
So Wiradhuri words like corella and gang-gang , names for cockatoos, kookaburra , a kingfisher, boggi , a lizard, belah , a Casuarina, billabong anabranch, gilgai waterhole, and bondi , a club, became parts of everyday Australian English, as did the Kamilaroi words brolga , a crane, budgerigar , a small parrot, coolamon wooden vessel or basin, gundy , yet another word for hut, and towri country, the traditional territory of an Aboriginal people, the Yuwaalaraay words galah , a parrot, and gidgee , an acacia, and words common to Kamilaroi and Yuwaalaraay like the names of other species of acacia such as boree and mulga .
Having considered child abuse and its attendant ills from all sorts of angles--alleged Satanists, celebrity molesters, recovered memories, day-care witch trials--James Kincaid, a professor of English at the University of Southern California, has concluded that at its root the problem is a matter of genre.
One is moved to enquire how the sound is articulated by speakers of other English dialects or in other regions (New England, for example), but the book does not go into that much detail.