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On top of these bare bones, Jonathan Rosen gives his book a big head--another telltale feature of the anorexic body, as the expert Joseph observes.
A telltale sign of the leader-preacher inaugural is the use of the phrase, "Let us ...
There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.
"Today's Papers" guesses this is a telltale sign of writing the reaction part of the story from a press release.
The boat heads off toward the telltale sign of the spume of water, and then suddenly, there it is: a silvery flank virtually underneath the boat.