When angry taxpayers liken the Internal Revenue Service to "vultures," they're actually making a deep linguistic connection. During the Middle Ages, English officials would charge a tax on non-resident merchants who sold goods on the streets. This duty was known as ascavage(after a Middle Fre...
There is great diversity of collective nouns associated with animals, from a sleuth of bears to a murder of crows. The following is a list of the correct terms to describe groups of various types of animals. Collective NameAnimal herd of antelope army of ants colony of ants swarm of ants ...
In a society that’s been hijacked linguistically by the abuse of hyperbole, “spectacle,” in fact, is truly the only word that accurately attempts to describe the simultaneous movement of millions of waterfowl and other birds. As interesting or not as any of that is to unsuspecting passers...
Proverbs 30:15 sn The next two verses describe insatiable things, things that are problematic to normal life. The meaning of v. 15a and its relationship to 15b is debated. But the “leech” seems to have been selected to begin the section because it was symbolic of greed—it sucks blood...
would give up the information, though, Menelaus had to capture him—no mean feat, since Proteus had the ability to change into any natural shape he chose. The word protean came to describe this ability to change into many different shapes or to play many different roles in quick succession....
One of your characters inMonstressused the term, “chop-suey cinema,” to describe the splicing together of East and West genres. Your writing defies stereotypes. You do not stigmatize your Filipino characters. What advice can you give to writers who want to write about characters where English...
ceremonial activities. Cut marks from the bird bones indicate some birds had their skins or wings removed, suggesting the making of elaborate costumes from the feathers of large birds of prey, including eagles and vultures, as well as buzzards (White et al., in press). A high level of per...
It’s quite hard to describe since the image is huge but the experience is almost realistic. This type of imaging is a step forward to building that holodeck. The amount of detail that the resolution provides will be able to show more infomation for computers to see. Although current ...
Beat the drums. Shout it out. Write it down. Document everything. Fill the archives. Build more archives. If I don’t describe it, it will remain undescribed. Walking to work today I saw an old man in boxer shorts open his front door, float up his rosebud fingertips, and fold into ...
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