Sometimes these differences in meaning take on a kind of bewildering circularity. A tramp in Britain is a bum in America, while a bum in Britain is a fanny in America, while a fanny in Britain is—well...
Stoically, Le Gentil packed up his instruments and set off for the nearest port, but en route he contracted dysentery and was laid up for nearly a year.
Was just very compact, not much larger than a standard wardrobe. But it was a marvel of ergonomics. It included
Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes for you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your li...
I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.
The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively, as almost every American learns on his first day in Britain.
The body is in constant danger of being depleted by a greedy brain, but cannot afford to let the brain go hungry as that would rapidly lead to death.
The best ones go in for a kind of gloriously silly redundancy toward the end, as with Sir Humphrey Dodington Benedict Sherston Sherston-Baker and the truly unbeatable Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraduat...
The basic working arrangement of atoms is the molecule (from the Latin for little mass).
Buffon found himself threatened with excommunication for expressing it. A practical man, he apologized at once for his thoughtless heresy, then cheerfully repeated the assertions throughout his subseq...
Bundesbahnangestelltenwitwe (a widow of a federal railway employee),
The New York Times, with what was threatening to become a customary lack of prescience, forecast that it would never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued...
The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct.
That is why, for instance, horses in New England (as in East Anglia) neigh, while those in the middle states of America (and the Midlands of England) whinny.
One less happy practice Vanbrugh introduced with Carlisle at Castle Howard was that of razing estate villages and moving the occupants elsewhere if they were deemed to be insufficiently picturesque or...
Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. Everyone
Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics.
Which state, very baldly, that a thing moves in the direction in which it is pushed; that it will keep moving in a straight line until some other force acts to slow or deflect it; and that every actio...
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is basically being too stupid to know how stupid you are. That
Very should be made to pay its way in sentences. Too often it is used where it adds nothing to sense (‘It was a very tragic death’), or is inserted in a futile effort to prop up a weak word that would...
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