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! bgcolor="#66ccff"|U
! bgcolor="#ffcccc"|Non-U
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| bgcolor="#66ccff"| Bike or Bicycle
| bgcolor="#ffcccc"|Cycle
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| bgcolor="#66ccff"| Dinner Jacket
| bgcolor="#ffcccc"|Dress Suit
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| bgcolor="#66ccff"| Knave
| bgcolor="#ffcccc"|Jack (cards)
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| bgcolor="#66ccff"|Vegetables
| bgcolor="#ffcccc"|Greens
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| bgcolor="#66ccff"|Ice
| bgcolor="#ffcccc"|Ice Cream
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| bgcolor="#66ccff"|Scent
| bgcolor="#ffcccc"|Perfume
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| bgcolor="#66ccff"|They've a very nice house.
| bgcolor="#ffcccc"|They have (g...
Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE (28 November 1904, London – 30 June 1973, Versailles), styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years. She was born at 1 Graham Street (now Graham Place) in Belgravia, London, the eldest daughter of Lord Redesdale and was brought up at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire. She was the eldest of the six controversial Mitford sisters.
Biography
Novelist and biographer
She is best remembered for her series of n...
I was listening to a song the other day, and it featured the words "woggy dago".
Now I did manage to find out what dago means, but I'm still not clear about woggy.
It isn't in the dictionary, and while I could find it on the net, none of the apparent meanings fit the context in the song.
I al...
Polyandry (—many, andras—man) refers to a form of marriage in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. Polyandry is prohibited by Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam and it is illegal in most countries, including those that permit polygyny. Even in cultures where it has been known, it is and has been extremely rare, and then only in particular and limited circumstances. In those cultures, the husbands were almost always from the same family. For example, the form of polyandry in which a woman is married to two or more brothers is known as fraternal polyandry, and i...
In English, this saying goes back at least to the 16th century:
1546 J. HEYWOOD Prov. II. iv. (1867) 51 Plentie is nodeintie, ye see not your owne ease. I see, ye can not see the wood for trees. —Oxford English Dictionary
This is for in the sense of “on account of”, “because of”, which goes...
Why we read u fore example moon but door we read and sometimes U we read A example us I want to know why..?
sorry about my english I hope you understand me what Im trying to say.
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