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Commonplace may refer to: Commonplace book; Literary topos, the concept in rhetoric based on "commonplaces" or standard topics; The everyday life of commoners;
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, by W. H. Auden, is an anthology of passages and quotations from other authors, selected by Auden, arranged alphabetically by ...
Richard Hill's Commonplace Book is a paper manuscript of 514 numbered pages measuring 31.3 centimetres (12.3 in) vertically and 11.3 centimetres (4.4 in) horizontally, [1] a format typical of a tradesman's account book, and it has an old wrapper of limp vellum. [3]
Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show the equivalent words you need to learn in the other language to achieve fluency.
Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS [1] (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology. [2]Educated at Highgate School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught at these universities and at Oxford, where he served as Sherardian Professor of Botany until his retirement in 1937.