Add to ORKGIf we wish to refer to the quantity midway between the numbers one and two, we say ONE AND A HALF. Elementary as the concept is, it has taken us four words to express it. By comparison, there are a good many other languages in which just one word will suffice
This paper deals with something that is very important in our lives and is always present and ready ...
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According to Dmitri Borgmann in Beyond Language (Scribner\u27s, 1967), the English language contains...
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Ross Eckler\u27s Making the ALphabet Dance (St. Martin\u27s 1996) lists 20 words on page 236, each c...
This paper deals with something that is very important in our lives and is always present and ready ...
Dmitri Borgmann\u27s second book, Beyond Language (Scribner\u27s), was published in 1967. One of the...
In Hamlet, Polonius tells King Claudius that brevity is the soul of wit . If we can believe that t...
There are about two million words in the English language and exactly twenty-six letters in the Engl...
How many one-letter words are there in the English language? If you answered 26, well done! If you a...
El capítulo presenta los siguientes contenidos gramaticales del inglés: un texto introductorio, una ...
According to Dmitri Borgmann in Beyond Language (Scribner\u27s, 1967), the English language contains...
The English language has a complement of somewhere between two million and three million short wor...
We know that the size and content of words varies widely across languages; what can be said in a sin...
There are four basic ways wehreby words enter a language. There are the original words, so old we ca...
Many English number-names can be imbedded in words or split between two words; Martin Gardner exploi...
Russian quantifiers are known for their complexity. This dissertation investigates expressions of in...
English is perhaps the most mongrel of languages; Spanish and Swahili are the nearest runners-up. Un...
In the last paragraph of Russian-English Word Squares in the February 1977 Word Ways, I suggested ...
Ross Eckler\u27s Making the ALphabet Dance (St. Martin\u27s 1996) lists 20 words on page 236, each c...
This paper deals with something that is very important in our lives and is always present and ready ...
Dmitri Borgmann\u27s second book, Beyond Language (Scribner\u27s), was published in 1967. One of the...
In Hamlet, Polonius tells King Claudius that brevity is the soul of wit . If we can believe that t...