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...?Narrative: Dictionary Reflective Preface An essential object during the formative years of the curriculum for many, but for us, who have touproot themselves from their locale, culture and identity into a realm where every single thing around is so much different, interpersonal relationship and, most importantly, communication skills become the only life support in the ocean of unknown identities. Amid this kind of condition, a dictionary is an essential instrument for students like us who are shifted into America on exchange programs of various universities. A procurement of a Chinese Mandarin-English dictionary could actually be like a support system of a patient...
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...3. Explain the difference between the two phenomena: a phonetic mistake and phonological mistake. Please illustrate each phenomenon with 3 examples.A phonetic mistake involves a different realisation of a phoneme, so that the speaker uses an allophone of a particular phoneme within an utterance. This may occur due to the speaker's linguistic background and does not change the meaning of the word.
Examples: i) The glottal stop // is an allophone of /t/ which occurs in words such as 'butter': b. People who employ it normally speak a particular English accent.
ii) One may aspirate a consonant even though it does not precede a vowel: kth
iii) A foreign speaker of English may find difficulty...
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...Jones Soda Jones Soda's Strategy. The story of Jones Soda began when its founder and president Van Stolk realized the existing potential of the alternative products in the beverage production industry. Nowadays Jones Soda is rather unique company whose vision is constantly growing. The beginning of soda's distribution began with the working out of "alternative distribution strategy". It means that Jones Soda began attacking the market place and placed its products in convenience stores. Nowadays the strategy of the company aims at co-working with larger companies such as Safeway, Starbucks. 7-Eleven stores, etc. The company is focusing on dealing with customers and always responds to demand's changes. Jones Soda created a "trend... for...
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...deserves the accolade as ultimate "catalyst for economic development". This has been derived from economist Say's pronouncement that the ideal entrepreneur is a "catalyst for economic development" (Lowe & Marriott 2006,p.6). He is passionate about his beliefs and positively acts on such messianic beliefs at such great cost to himself and it is this selfless sacrifice without expectations of reward or payment that really makes Peter Jones a great man, a true man for all seasons, who is worthy of emulation and admiration. It should be noted that most business moguls would prefer to keep their business secrets to themselves and do everything in the books so that their companies can trample the rest of...
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...Carmen Jones The Purpose of this paper, is to discuss a particular play, first seen in 1943. This play deals Heavily with a myriad of issues from World War II to gender issues, to racial issues and finally to love and crimes of passion. This particular piece can be classified in the genre of tragic-period pieces which are set as musicals. The aspect of making the piece into a musical allows for the breadth of dialogue pertinent to this story, to be adequately displayed and understood. Multiple elements play an important role in the intricate layers of this story, such as war, being a woman, being black, segregation and social classes.
Carmen Jones was a 1943 musical which was later adapted to film in...
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...Dictionary Usage The word banshee is a feminine spirit of legend whose howling signifies that a loved one is about to die. Interlude means a prevailing period. The term infernal refers to something that pertains to hell. Interminable refers to something appearing to have no end. Meditative is word that is indicative of meditation. The term phoenix refers to a legendary bird that burns, and then grows from its ashes. Haughtiness refers to arrogance. Bough refers to a main branch of a tree. Transcendent refers to going beyond normal limits. Token refers to a sign or symbol.
The banshee comes from the Irish bean si, which is term used to refer to woman of the sighe or simply put, woman of the “fairly mounds” is female...
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...full THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY When an individual wants to know the meaning of word, the person makes use of a reference material called dictionary. This book normally offers several information on a word; namely, the definition, the proper way to pronounce it, its grammatical function, its etymology, and, sometimes, a sample sentence. There exists a variety of dictionaries to cater to the different needs of readers. Dictionaries are helpful tools in understanding a language. For the English language, one of these helpful books is the Oxford English Dictionary or OED.
What is the...
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...Oxford English Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary is one of the most widely accepted and used dictionaries in the world. However, people often do not know anything related to its initial publication. This paper aims to study the history of Oxford English Dictionary from different aspects including its first publication, reasons for publication, importance and the overall development record. The paper will enable readers to value and acknowledge this significant learning resource.
Background
The Oxford English Dictionary also known as OED has proved to be a foundation for meaning,...
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...Introduction
There are many Hollywood films using main characters who display mood disorders. While some of the films bring disorder out naturally, some do not acknowledge its appearance and when identified, the immediate reference is depression. In this discussion, a film named Mr. Jones (1993) brings out the bipolar disorder through Richard Greer who is the main character. He poses as a carpenter with bipolar-I (Figgis, 1993).
Richard Greer who, in the cast acts as Mr. Jones, in the first scene displays symptoms of a hypo manic. This is by displaying a high level of confidence, which inspires both the finds and him to undertake tasks, which in normal sense are very difficult to handle. For the very...
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... Galatians From the point of view of literature genre, Epistle to the Galatians might be considered to be an open letter to a group of early Christians who lived in Galatia. The authorship of this letter is no subject for debates: even the earliest scholars thought that Paul the Apostle wrote it as it possesses some of the characteristic features of his eloquences and manner of addressing the audience. However, there are several discussions about the date of creation of this letter as the original is lost and the scientists are able to work with copies or drafts. Nevertheless, the majority of the scholars date it with the middle of the first century. The key themes that the letter embraces is the criticism of following the Jewish... Galatians ...
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