Wordstruck: A MemoirViking, 1989 - Всего страниц: 230 MacNeil's autobiography re-creates the world of his youth and the experiences that were opened up to him through his love of words. His delight and passion for the music and magic of language, have enabled MacNeil to transmute it into a work of art. Photos. |
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... American Revolution and the Civil War ; on his , the Wares of Harvard . My mother's grandfather , a Colonel John Breckenridge Neely , fought with Tennessee for the Confederacy ; my father's great - uncle Robert Ware was killed while ...
... American Revolution and the Civil War ; on his , the Wares of Harvard . My mother's grandfather , a Colonel John Breckenridge Neely , fought with Tennessee for the Confederacy ; my father's great - uncle Robert Ware was killed while ...
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... Americans and Englishmen pronounce that word so differently : the English and Canadian leff - tenant , the American loo - tenant , closer to the French word , meaning place - taker , he who occupies the place of a superior . I had ...
... Americans and Englishmen pronounce that word so differently : the English and Canadian leff - tenant , the American loo - tenant , closer to the French word , meaning place - taker , he who occupies the place of a superior . I had ...
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... American English , is standard in Chaucer in all forms - axe , axen , axed : " and axed him if Troilus were there . " Was that transmitted across six hundred years or simply reinvented ? English grew without a formal grammar . After the ...
... American English , is standard in Chaucer in all forms - axe , axen , axed : " and axed him if Troilus were there . " Was that transmitted across six hundred years or simply reinvented ? English grew without a formal grammar . After the ...
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