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English language arts, which is the study of grammar, usage, and style. English sociolinguistics, including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history of the English language, English language learning and teaching, and the study of World of English. English linguistics (syntax, morphology, phonetics ...
Geoffrey Neil Leech FBA (16 January 1936 – 19 August 2014) was a specialist in English language and linguistics. He was the author, co-author, or editor of more than 30 books and more than 120 published papers. [1]
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
Lecsó (/ ˈ l ɛ tʃ oʊ / LETCH-oh, Hungarian: [ˈlɛt͡ʃoː]; Czech and Slovak: lečo; German: Letscho ⓘ; Ukrainian: лечо, romanized: lecho; Polish: leczo [ˈlɛt͡ʂɔ] ⓘ; Russian: лечо, romanized: lyecho, IPA: [ˈlʲetɕɵ]), also anglicized as lecho, is a Hungarian [1] thick vegetable ragout or stew which traditionally contains yellow pointed peppers, tomato, onion, salt ...
Lethe. In Greek mythology, Lethe (Ancient Greek: Λήθη, lit. 'Forgetfulness, Oblivion') [1] is the personification of forgetfulness and oblivion. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Lethe was the daughter of Eris (Strife), with no father mentioned.
The English poet John Keats references the river in poems "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on Melancholy" written in 1819. In Faust, Part Two, the titular character, Faust, is bathed "in the dew of Lethe" so that he would forget what happened in Faust, Part One. A remorseful Faust would not work well with the rest of Part 2.
For scholars who view language from the perspective of linguistic competence, essentially the knowledge of language and grammar that exists in the mind of an individual language user, the idiolect, is a way of referring to the specific knowledge. For scholars who regard language as a shared social practice, the idiolect is more like a dialect ...
In Old English, lǣce was the name for a physician as well as for the animal, though the words had different origins, and lǣcecraft, leechcraft, was the art of healing. [ 63 ] "Leech finders" from The Costume of Yorkshire by George Walker, 1814, engraved by Robert Havell