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  2. The Sun Rising (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Stanza one begins with the speaker in bed with his lover, complaining about sun's beaming rays. Donne uses expressions such as, "Busy old fool" (line 1) and "Saucy Pedantic Wretch" [perfectionist] [4] (line 5) to describe his annoyance with it. The speaker of the poem questions the sun's motives and yearns for the sun to go away so that he and ...

  3. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used

  4. Lists of dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.

  5. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...

  6. Stilted speech - Wikipedia

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    In psychiatry, stilted speech or pedantic speech [1] is communication characterized by situationally inappropriate formality. [2] This formality can be expressed both through abnormal prosody [ 3 ] as well as speech content that is "inappropriately pompous, legalistic, philosophical, or quaint". [ 4 ]

  7. Inkhorn term - Wikipedia

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    It was an important item for many scholars, which soon became symbolic of writers in general. Later, it became a byword for fussy or pedantic writers. [1] The phrase "inkhorn term" is found as early as 1553. [2] And ere that we will suffer such a prince, So kind a father of the commonweal, To be disgracèd by an inkhorn mate

  8. List of Cornish dialect words - Wikipedia

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    This is a select list of Cornish dialect words in English—while some of these terms are obsolete others remain in use. [1] [2] Many Cornish dialect words have their origins in the Cornish language and others belong to the West Saxon group of dialects which includes West Country English: consequently words listed may not be exclusive to Cornwall.

  9. Category:Dictionaries by language - Wikipedia

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    For example, a dictionary with French headwords accompanied by definitions in French should be categorized as Category:French dictionaries. Two-language dictionaries which translate in only one direction should be listed in a subcategory of Category:Translation dictionaries .