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Names of apples like cleopatra and democrat, of potatoes like bintje, black derwent, and kennebec, carry a Tasmanian stamp (in Australia at any rate), as does the mutton bird (the shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris )—which has given Tasmanian English the verb mutton bird or in its abbreviated form bird, as well as lexical oddities like dizz (`cook a mutton bird') for those foolhardy enough to contemplate such a feat.
Bowman concludes his paper with some fascinating oddities.
There are some oddities here, not the least of which is that the struggle over affirmative action is waged most vigorously over admissions to colleges and universities, and one hears less and less about important cases in the area of employment.
The author explicitly refrains from examples of nomination, in code names, code-numbered names, anonyms, pet names, name-changing, and other onomastic oddities in this material (p. 285).
Inevitably, there are the inconveniences and the oddities: the pronunciation of masochistic or masochistically , thus depriving the user of the information that the stresses have shifted.
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