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I have been pronouncing the word "cache" as "kaysh". I know a few people who pronounce it more like "cash" or even "cashay" or "catch". After consulting a few dictionaries, it turns out that the correct pronunciation of the word "cache" is "cash".
My question is, are the other pronunciations of...
In Norse mythology, the Poetic Mead or Mead of Poetry (Old Norse skáldskapar mjaðar), also known as Mead of Suttungr (Suttungmjaðar), is a mythical beverage that whoever "drinks becomes a skald or scholar" to recite any information and solve any question. This myth was reported by Snorri Sturluson (Skáldskaparmál 5) (1). The drink is a vivid metaphor for poetic inspiration, often associated with Odin the god of 'possession' via berserkr rage or poetic inspiration.
Plot
Creation of the mead of poetry and murder of Kvasir
After the Æsir-Vanir War, the gods sealed the truce they had just co...
John Ivan Simon (born May 12, 1925) is an American author and literary, theater, and film critic.
Personal life
Simon was born in Subotica, Bačka, County of Bačka, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, later, (after 1929) known as Yugoslavia (now North Bačka District, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia). He is of Hungarian descent. The son of Joseph and Margaret (née Reves) Simmon, he grew up in Belgrade before emigrating to the United States in 1941 on a tourist visa to join his father. By 1944 he was in United States Army Air Force basic training camp in Wichit...
For years I have used '=>' as a sign meaning 'should be changed to' and I have long since forgotten whether this is a personal idiosyncrasy or an actual existing usage.
e.g. "in the sentence above word 'jive' => 'jibe.'"
Is this familiar usage to anyone?
Anyone else besides me, I mean.
Were Shakespeare books translated to contemporary English? Which version is more common? Is there a rule to choose which books will have its language updated? Are poems updated too?
From which year I should expect that books have a "translation"?
Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (English: “Dictionary of the Dutch language”) is a dictionary of the Dutch language and the largest dictionary in the world in print. It has over 430,000 entries of Dutch words from 1500 to 1921 and the paper edition consists of 43 volumes and close to 50,000 pages. The dictionary was almost 150 years in the making: the first fascicle (A-Aanhaling) was published in 1863 and the last (Zuid-Zythum) in 1998. Three supplements to the original dictionary text containing modern-day Dutch words were published in 2001. The dictionary can currently be purchased o...
Untranslatability is a property of a text, or of any utterance, in one language, for which no equivalent text or utterance can be found in another language when translated.
Terms are, however, neither exclusively translatable nor exclusively untranslatable; rather, the degree of difficulty of translation depends on their nature, as well as on the translator's knowledge of the languages in question.
Quite often, a text or utterance that is considered to be "untranslatable" is actually a lacuna, or lexical gap. That is, there is no one-to-one equivalence between the word, expression or tur...
Note: This turned into more of an opinion piece than I originally intended. Your milage may vary and I have nothing to help back any of this up.
Regarding the usage of "he" in place of "she", this is possible as a lashback against the typical "she" usage:
(by a woman) I love my car. He a...
Why I was remembering that the word "moron" means a very smart person (a genius), but my English teacher has said it means the opposite (an idiot) and that was confirmed by lexicons.
Where I've got its wrong sense from?
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