Search results for "Colloquial" - New World Encyclopedia
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- are invaluable as evidence for how colloquial Arabic of this period was spoken and understood. The importance of these materials for reconstructing ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 18:19, 25 November 2023
- and pedantry." Another known colloquial variation of the term, most common in parts of Texas, is "aspar grass" or "asper ...14 KB (2,081 words) - 04:48, 18 August 2023
- of college life, the story of a very colloquial pookah, and the "novel" about the Western-writer. The author of Westerns is an eccentric ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- also be characterized by the complexity of the colloquial language found in his works. Many editions of Rulfo's publications, even those rewritten ...12 KB (1,960 words) - 06:06, 10 May 2024
- water or fire-damaged and thus acquired the colloquial name of the "Burnt Documents." Because they were mostly too fragile for public access ...18 KB (2,677 words) - 15:40, 30 April 2023
- or "pyro" for short. In colloquial English, the synonyms "firebug" and "firestarter" are sometimes used. Pyromaniacs ...16 KB (2,341 words) - 03:40, 7 December 2022
- Great Awakening. His sermons were known to be colloquial, simple, and full of conviction. Along the path of his great revival tours, he worked with ...14 KB (2,134 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- This technique is apparent in Frost's best poems, where colloquial expressions that ring with commonplace tones emerge out of the gridwork ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- had breaks in the flow, were slightly more colloquial, and were much more somber and melancholic. Affected by the turbulent times, Saigyō focused ...14 KB (2,344 words) - 18:56, 22 December 2022
- Cork, sometimes confused with bark in colloquial speech, is the outermost layer of a woody stem, derived from the cork cambium. Cork is an external ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:36, 23 May 2020
- They were traditionally and are still occasionally in colloquial language known to white colonists as the Hottentots. The word "hottentot ...14 KB (2,178 words) - 02:59, 6 June 2024
- In addition to being the colloquial term sometimes used to describe dry ice, "hot ice" is the name given to a surprising phenomenon ...17 KB (2,628 words) - 22:12, 7 January 2024
- As an English colloquial term, "mint" stands for any small sugar confectionery item flavored to taste like the aforementioned plant ...17 KB (2,569 words) - 16:11, 9 November 2022
- bearded patriarch has had immense influence upon colloquial understandings of God in the Western world. == Etymology == Zeus is a continuation ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- represent in masks, called calacas (colloquial term for "skeleton"), and foods such as sugar skulls, which are inscribed with the name ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- a wide range of registers, from the direct and colloquial to the allusive and self-consciously literary. The tenor of his work changed as he developed ...18 KB (2,990 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- #039;s writing the final -e was dropping out of colloquial English and that its use was somewhat irregular. Chaucer's versification suggests that ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic.Julie Scott Meisami, The Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian ...19 KB (2,845 words) - 09:19, 10 March 2023
- The name "Veronica" is a colloquial portmanteau of the Latin word Vera, meaning truth, and Greek Icon, meaning "image;" the ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- #039;t anybody play this here game?" This colloquial expression was altered and later became the title of Jimmy Breslin's book about the first ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 14:22, 29 November 2023
