Edward Thomas, whoseIn Pursuit of Springtakes him in 1913 by bicycle from London to Somerset, a ride akin to others in the book that Day replicates, if that is the correct word. Relives, recreates, records. Reads and recycles. And again, in the cycle of my reading, Day’s tribute ...
Call it national chauvinism(沙文主义) if you like, but people in England call Britain England out of habit rather than conscious sense of superiority, though it annoys the Welsh and especially the Scots who are proud of their separate national tradition.【1】The British Isles is made up of_...
weighman, weighmen, welching, weldment, wellborn, wellness, welshing, wenchers, wenching, wendigos, wenniest, wessands, westerns, westings, wetlands, wettings, whacking, whaleman, whalemen, whalings, whamming, whangees, whanging, whapping, wharfing, whatnots, wheeling, wheelman, wheelmen,...
1570s, representing the native form of the reduplication of *ma- that is nearly universal among the Indo-European languages (Greek mamme "mother, grandmother," Latin mamma, Persian mama, Russian and Lithuanian mama "mother," German Muhme "mother's sister," French maman, Welsh mam "mother")...