In Shakespeare's Othello 3.1.26, the Clown answers Cassio:
She is stirring, sir; if she will stir hither, I shall seem to notify unto her.
where the verb "seem" makes me confused.
The common usage "To be suitable to" (OED IV.I) or "To have a semblance or appearance" (OED IV.II) may not befit th...
The exact meaning of the following phrase in bold is not clear to me. In the first scene of King Lear, Regan utters these words to her father with flattery. I'm not sure but I think I read somewhere that "the most precious square of sense" refers to "the four nobler senses". But what does "square"...
@bobble I would say no, as it's not a question about orthography. Would we use e.g. translation for an ID question about a translated work, even if its translation was so memorable as to be the main distinctive feature of the question?
@Spagirl Another target for you: if this quarter's rep rates stay consistent, you'll overtake Matt Thrower by the end of the year and @AncientSwordRage will need to rent another plane.
The Indian writer Premchand started off writing in Urdu, and started writing Hindi stories later in his career. According to Wikipedia:
In 1914, Munshi Premchand started writing in Hindi (Hindi and Urdu are considered different registers of a single language Hindustani, with Hindi drawing much o...