Example sentences for: xxi
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I was intrigued by William Dougherty's comment [XXI,2] on Martyn Ecott's article The Franglais Blues [XX,3].
Paul Blackford's article [Some English Loanwords in Thai, XXI, 1,5] brought to my mind my favourite chunk of Thai vocabulary and, incidentally, another loanword from English (from Thai for Travellers , DK Arts, Bangkok):
Re your recent OBITER DICTA [XXI,1], I'm sorry you did not delve further into the idea that the word black is on its way out.
I find Mary Imber's comments on rhyming slang, O. Abootty's short essay on Kerala Billingsgate, and Charles Lewis' neat exposition of English permutations [XXI, 4] particularly entertaining and informative.
Robertson Cochrane's enjoyable article, Me and Empathy [XXI, 4], says, Why is it... that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?
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