Our Living Language Speakers of Standard English mainly restrict the use of adverbial right to modify adverbs of space or time, as in She's right over there or Do it right now! No such restriction applies in Southern vernacular speech, where right can be used to intensify the meaning of ma...
This is the new "nobility" falsely advertised to be the new "equality". The lowest class is the citizenry; those not in the bureaucracy and not ruling. Meaning you and me, no longer sovereign citizens, no longer represented in our government, but ruled. Right back where we started. ...
The word rights in "Human Rights, Human Wrongs," the title of the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures series in which this essay was first presented, acquires verbal meaning by its contiguity with the word wrongs. The verb to right cannot be used intransitively on this level of ion. It can only...
Topics include writing approach, purpose, structure, melodic significance and construction, basic music theory, word meaning, word design and arrangement, chords, and how they are all pieced together. Along the way, a song is created to act as a case study and a demonstration of what each ...