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51Last name, Mr — The ‘Mr’ was formerly an abbreviation of ‘Master’. Between the late sixteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century the pronunciation of ‘Master’ when used before a family name slowly changed to ‘Mister’, and a new word was… …
52sirrah — An extended form of ‘sir’ which began to be used in the sixteenth century and is still to be found in nineteenth century literature. Joseph Sedley, for example, in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, addresses his servant as ‘fellow’ and ‘sir’, and… …
53trade-last — noun Date: 1891 a complimentary remark by a third person that a hearer offers to repeat to the person complimented if he or she will first report a compliment made about the hearer …
54Heraclitus — Infobox Philosopher region = Western Philosophy era = Ancient philosophy color = #B0C4DE image caption = Heraclitus by Johannes Moreelse. The image depicts him as the weeping philosopher wringing his hands over the world and the obscure dressed… …
55Qur'an — The Qur’an [pronounced qurˈʔaːn ( scripture ). The latter two terms also denote units of revelation. Other related words are: , transliterated as: ArabDIN|bismi llāhi ar raḥmāni ar raḥīmi .] an Arabic phrase meaning ( In the name of God, Most… …
56Parable — For a comparison of parable with other kinds of stories, see Myth, legend, fairy tale, and fable. The Parable of the Good Samaritan by Jan Wijnants (1670) shows the Good Samaritan tending the injured man. A parable is …
57Pleonasm — is the use of more words (or even word parts) than necessary to express an idea clearly. A closely related concept is rhetorical tautology, in which essentially the same thing is said more than once in different words (e.g black darkness , cold… …
58Wu Chinese — language name=Wu nativename= zh. 吳語/ zh. 吴语 Wú yǔ familycolor=Sino Tibetan states=China; and countries with overseas Chinese originating from Wu speakings areas of China region=Shanghai; most of Zhejiang province; southern Jiangsu province;… …
59Spanish verbs — are one of the most complex areas of Spanish grammar. Spanish is a synthetic language with a moderate to high degree of inflection which shows up mostly in the verb conjugation.The Spanish verb system is separated into 14 distinct tenses (tense… …
60Productivity (linguistics) — In linguistics, productivity is the degree to which native speakers use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation. Since use to produce novel (new, non established) structures is the clearest proof of usage of a grammatical… …
