I was already aware of many other non-standard usages that didn't bother me a bit. |
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Prescriptive grammarians routinely disparage innovative usages as introducing ambiguities. |
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One objection is that they'll let various inelegant usages into the language, but that is a tough basis on which to make one's argument. |
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It was only by slow degrees that the native laws and customs were ousted by Anglo-Norman usages and the machinery of feudalism. |
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While they are certainly overvalued, these words still retain their political usefulness as the struggle over their usages attest. |
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Suppose you wanted to track changes in the relative usages of syntactic variants by writers in, oh say, the past three or four decades. |
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However, differences in dialect consist primarily of slight differences in accent or pronunciation and minor grammatical usages. |
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Such usages are sometimes described as barbarous and pleonastic, but such criticism does not affect their widespread use. |
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The usages are therefore many and varied in the history of Western art and folk music and in ethnomusicology. |
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Did anyone ever check that a range of test pressures corresponded with suitability for particular usages? |
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Idiomatic usages are usually colloquial and informal, more or less obvious figurative extensions of ordinary uses. |
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Non-standard usages, like multiple negation, are sometimes attacked on the same grounds. |
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But I just think that figurative usages don't in fact help richness and vibrancy much. |
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And there he is, being appealed to with not one but two usages decried by strict grammarians. |
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Describe various tools and their usages in the daily work of the lumbermen. |
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Outside these specialised terms for slaves, there are some usages in the colonial newspapers which parallel those of the English press, but perhaps rather more obscurely. |
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The sudden emergence of the artistic act disrupts behaviours and distorts usages of the urban space. |
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The town's acquisition of jurisdictions from its lords would have been a sufficient motivation to compile a written set of customary usages of the town. |
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He upheld customary usages and institutions in Goa, reduced anti-Hindu discrimination, promoted education and tolerance, and abolished the colour bar. |
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From the fourteenth century on discussions of analogy focused not so much on linguistic usages as on the nature of the concepts that corresponded to the words used. |
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It refers to lands owned by natives under their customs or usages. |
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It would seem hard to argue that the uncivilized usages of gamesmanship are an improvement on sportsmanship. |
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He would now be quite interested in the various usages of the term, its numerous acceptations and definitions, and the way it has infiltrated the discourse in and on the arts. |
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The government's tolerance for these anarchistic, irresponsible and illegal usages of the tools of Parliament is wearing thin. |
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The entries for individual words grew, some to several pages in length, as a meshwork of cross-reference thrived between languages and usages. |
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The objective is to reconcile the various usages by drawing up a plan enabling a mixed and attractive structuring. |
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None of these various usages have yet been able to clarify the meaning of the term, which is often used inconsistently. |
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Vinyl record crystalizes a meditation on our usages of music and its image-picture standard wich are at once merged and indépendent. |
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The term postcolonial in its various usages carries a multiplicity of meanings that need to be distinguished for analytical purposes. |
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But it represents only British English, and 100m words is not so many when linguists search for rare usages. |
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But these are all correct usages of the word 'poor ' while it's not of infinite extension, it doesn't have a sharp edge. |
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Fueros were charters documenting the privileges and usages given to all the people repopulating a town. |
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Both of these usages may lead back through the Phoenician to the Akkadian kalakku, which denotes a type of river barge. |
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The idiolects of individuals are each a little different, usages in different subcultures somewhat more so, and in dialects even more so. |
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Among the changes starting in the 19th century was the introduction of words, spellings, terms and usages from North American English. |
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The later Mormaers are thought to have originated in Pictish times, and to have been copied from, or inspired by, Northumbrian usages. |
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You will be given the choice between the two main existing lexicographic order usages as well as the possibility to define the locations for the consonant clusters. |
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Echoing the Treaty of Birgham, it was stipulated that laws, usages, and customs in place in the time of Alexander III should be retained. |
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The science of place-names, or toponymics, has become a significant specialty since World War II, and efforts have been made to establish uniform usages and standards of transliteration throughout the world. |
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This same spirit of revolt was shared by Zhong Xing and Tan Yuanchun, of a later school, who were so unconventional that they explored the possibilities of writing intelligibly without observing Chinese grammatical usages. |
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Socioeconomics is sometimes used as an umbrella term with different usages. |
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Despite that, responsibility can still be a grey area, chiefly when the goods are being moved from ship to shore or vice-versa with different usages and customs in different ports. |
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But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution. |
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Other pipers have chosen to explore more creative usages of the instrument. |
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Multiple definitions of words are listed in chronological order, with the oldest, and often obsolete, usages listed first. |
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The American Humanist Association distinguishes the lifestance of Humanism from other usages by uppercasing the word. |
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The Chinese have had a particular way of life, a particular complex of usages, sometimes characterized as li. |
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On a human timescale, small usages of concrete go back for thousands of years. |
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It was a vestigial report that was used in older versions of the product to report usages with client licensing, and it was removed since StarTeam no longer supports client-side licenses. |
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It is also essential that these various initiatives be coordinated and that a global approach be developed to map the various oceans' usages with the view to preserving shipping routes. |
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However, besides the vestibules and passageways, their interiors show the architectural usages of the colonial time, such as, several interior patios with large rooms around. |
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Some usages of the term include wider areas, while others are more specific, though with little consistency of definition. |
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For this reason, it is generally reserved for outdoor public lighting usages. |
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As in the Old Norse usages, the term is not employed as a name for any people or culture in general. |
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Orange Labs focuses its work on videotelephony by assuming that video usages in the broad sense may become the key factor in the decision of subscribing to optical fibre. |
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These rites were based on local usages and combined elements of the Roman and Gallican Rites. |
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Christophe Aguiton, Dominique Cardon and Zbigniew Smoreda, from the SENSE laboratory, Orange Labs, work on new maps, as well as the new usages and problems they induce. |
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Other usages of metal films in lab-on-chips technology entail production of masks, overlayers, or adhesion layers. |
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Some of the most common usages are for parks, golf courses and other sports fields. |
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Further, even within these two broad usages of the term, there are different theoretical approaches. |
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The wording of the law, as well as common usages in those days and centuries afterwards, seems to support an interpretation that inheritance is divided between brothers. |
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A strong Canadian raising exists in the prairie regions together with certain older usages such as chesterfield and front room also associated with the Maritimes. |
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The precise usages of focus in natural language are still uncertain. |
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Too often is the college graduate a solecist through her ignorance of the customs and usages of that class whose life is made up of the minutiae of politeness. |
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The two wine vinegars and the hop-inspired alegar all have varied individual food usages, from marinades and dipping sauces to treacly reductions and dessert drizzling. |
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They simply insist that his Persian-tinged pronunciation, grammatical usages, and vocabulary were the result of a birth and education in Iranophilic Afghanistan. |
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In Finnic languages, a verb with the source meaning 'come' has developed future usages for example in Finnish, in which tulla combines with supine illative, like in. |
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Most Spanish speakers can recognize other Spanish forms even in places where they are not commonly used, but Spaniards generally do not recognize specifically American usages. |
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These quotations and usages were all compared and carefully studied in the Dictionary so that a reader could understand what words in literary works meant in context. |
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The treaty arranging the marriage, signed in December 1281, included a lengthy and complex document setting out the customs and usages which determined the succession. |
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Although the United States Board on Geographic Names does not use the term, New York Harbor has important historical, governmental, commercial, and ecological usages. |
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Even when two different moods exist in the same language, their respective usages may blur, or may be defined by syntactic rather than semantic criteria. |
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In the everydayness of their use, gestures are reconstructed, usages adapted, reinvented and appropriated by sensibilities refined in repeated acts of known activities. |
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Epistemic usages of modals tend to develop from deontic usages. |
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