Example sentences for: xxi
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You write, in your review of the Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names [XXI, 3, 18], It seems that in the southeastern US words beginning with shr - are pronounced as if spelled sr -, something I never knew.
In a review of The Endangered English Dictionary [XXI, 1,22], we misattributed authorship of Poplollies and Bellibones . As many readers probably know because the book is in their libraries, Poplollies and Bellibones is the work of Susan Kelz Sperling.
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?
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.
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