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  2. Emma Brooke - Wikipedia

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    Her most famous novel, A Superfluous Woman, was published in 1894. This was called an immoral tale by some male critics of the time. The plot of the novel focused partly on a story about the effects of the degeneration of the aristocratic classes on the women who were forced to marry them for money.

  3. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, formal English requires an overt subject in each clause. A sentence may not need a subject to have valid meaning, but to satisfy the syntactic requirement for an explicit subject a pleonastic (or dummy pronoun) is used; only the first sentence in the following pair is acceptable English: "It's raining." "Is raining."

  4. Category:Pejorative terms for women - Wikipedia

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  5. Alternative spellings of woman - Wikipedia

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    The terms womyn and womxn have been criticized for being unnecessary or confusing neologisms, due to the uncommonness of mxn to describe men. [8] [9] [10]The word womyn has been criticized by transgender people [11] [12] due to its usage in trans-exclusionary radical feminist circles which exclude trans women from identifying into the category of "woman", particularly the term womyn-born womyn.

  6. Superfluous - Wikipedia

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    Superfluous means unnecessary or excessive. It may also refer to: It may also refer to: Superfluous precision, the use of calculated measurements beyond significant figures

  7. Inga Rhonda King - Wikipedia

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    She taught English as a foreign language in China from 2002 to 2003 and has been a volunteer mathematics teacher for at-risk children in Miami. [2] In 2003, King published her biography as a collection of essays called Journal of a Superfluous Woman in which she narrates her experience with breast cancer. [4]

  8. Thinking man's crumpet - Wikipedia

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    In British English, the thinking man's crumpet or thinking woman's crumpet is a humorous term for a person who is popular with the opposite sex because of their intelligence and their physical attractiveness. [1] The expression is derived from the slang use of the term "crumpet" to refer to a woman who is regarded as an object of sexual desire. [2]

  9. List of diminutives by language - Wikipedia

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    -tjie for other words ending in -l, -n, -r or a vowel: soen → soentjie (kiss), koei (cow) → koeitjie, appel (apple) → appeltjie, beker (cup) → bekertjie, baba (baby) → babatjie; Diminutives of words that are themselves diminutives are used, for example baadjie (jacket) → baadjietjie (little jacket). Such constructions do not appear ...