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... quoted in the Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage : Are there any enduring standards of English usage ? I think there are only preferences , ' passionate preferences ' , as Robert Frost used to say . . . In the long run the usage of ...
... quoted in the Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage : Are there any enduring standards of English usage ? I think there are only preferences , ' passionate preferences ' , as Robert Frost used to say . . . In the long run the usage of ...
Strona 94
... quoted in the Guardian . Some years ago I quoted Dr Robert Burchfield of the Oxford English Dictionaries as fearing that the distinction between ' refute ' and ' deny ' would become even more blurred than it already is , in the next ...
... quoted in the Guardian . Some years ago I quoted Dr Robert Burchfield of the Oxford English Dictionaries as fearing that the distinction between ' refute ' and ' deny ' would become even more blurred than it already is , in the next ...
Strona 115
... quoted in the forthcoming Volume IV of A Supplement to the OED . However , the Supplement also has this example from the Massachusetts Spy , 1830 : ' Judy , with whom he had toughed it three years ' . The first BrE example quoted is ...
... quoted in the forthcoming Volume IV of A Supplement to the OED . However , the Supplement also has this example from the Massachusetts Spy , 1830 : ' Judy , with whom he had toughed it three years ' . The first BrE example quoted is ...
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