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    hang out, to put up with, etc. The phrasal verb frequently has a highly idiomatic meaning that is more specialised and restricted than what can be simply...
    233 KB (23,649 words) - 19:41, 8 June 2024
  • Charlie Chan (category Use American English from May 2016)
    condescending Asian stereotypes such as an alleged incapacity to speak idiomatic English and a tradition-bound and subservient nature. No Charlie Chan film...
    49 KB (5,074 words) - 22:31, 5 June 2024
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    entitled the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, started life as the Idiomatic and Syntactic Dictionary, edited by Albert Sydney Hornby...
    58 KB (7,370 words) - 13:16, 8 May 2024
  • The more idiomatic, concrete and descriptive English is, the more it is from Anglo-Saxon origins. The more intellectual and abstract English is, the more...
    34 KB (3,850 words) - 11:29, 8 June 2024
  • Idiom, also called idiomaticness or idiomaticity, is the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language. Idiom is the realized structure...
    4 KB (494 words) - 10:18, 11 September 2023
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    English and are learning to speak and write English, commonly among students. Language education for people learning English may be known as English as...
    105 KB (13,654 words) - 01:28, 1 June 2024
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    Carolino's indiscriminate use of literal translation, which has led to many idiomatic expressions being translated ineptly. For example, Carolino translates...
    18 KB (1,796 words) - 22:35, 23 April 2024
  • entirely English pronunciation is regarded as a solecism. Some of them were never "good French", in the sense of being grammatical, idiomatic French usage...
    110 KB (15,280 words) - 14:21, 6 June 2024
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    Spanish profanity (category Use American English from October 2020)
    swear words that vary between Spanish speaking nations and in regions and subcultures of each nation. Idiomatic expressions, particularly profanity, are...
    93 KB (12,637 words) - 15:46, 1 June 2024
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    along", would be split, giving Gehen Sie mit? (Literal: "Go you with?"; Idiomatic: "Are you going along?"). Indeed, several parenthetical clauses may occur...
    140 KB (13,999 words) - 13:40, 7 June 2024
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    as a modal verb of politeness (Would you open the door, please?). The idiomatic phrase used to expresses past states or past habitual actions (usually...
    8 KB (1,432 words) - 21:27, 29 June 2023
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    nill he", found in Shakespeare's Hamlet. "English Idioms, Phrases & Idiomatic Expressions". UsingEnglish.com. Retrieved 18 February 2024. "idiomconnection...
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  • person learning English as a second language. This includes avoiding idiomatic English, which may seem natural to a native speaker but would confuse non-native...
    5 KB (536 words) - 01:25, 5 June 2020
  • Inglish (1985) and Indianlish (2007). Indian English generally uses the Indian numbering system. Idiomatic forms derived from Indian literary languages...
    72 KB (7,934 words) - 04:38, 5 June 2024
  • English-speaking families. Standard Canadian English is distinct from Atlantic Canadian English, its most notable subset being Newfoundland English,...
    156 KB (18,525 words) - 04:16, 8 June 2024
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    part of the United Kingdom, with English being de facto official. According to the 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or...
    102 KB (10,852 words) - 21:58, 3 June 2024
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    to]) English has a number of other kinds of compound verb idioms. There are compound verbs with two verbs (e.g. make do). These too can take idiomatic prepositions...
    30 KB (3,893 words) - 02:31, 29 January 2024
  • lighthearted fling or affair ("I'm jolling that cherrie"). just now idiomatically used to mean soon, later, in a short while, or a short time ago, but...
    28 KB (2,692 words) - 17:59, 20 March 2024
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    clauses for results that are highly idiomatic (was about/supposed to depart, etc).: 209  In Early Modern English, perfect tenses could be formed with...
    96 KB (10,623 words) - 12:05, 26 April 2024
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    successive "Speak Mandarin" campaigns, a subtle language shift among the post-1965 generation became more and more evident as Malay idiomatic expressions...
    102 KB (12,637 words) - 18:16, 6 June 2024
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