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Blighty is commonly used as a term of endearment by the expatriate British community or those on holiday to refer to home. In Hobson-Jobson, an 1886 historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words, Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.
Term used to highlight or bring attention to one's outfit. "Fit" is a truncation of "outfit". [56] finna Short for "fixing to". The term has its roots in Southern American English, where "fixing to" has been used to mean "getting ready to" since the 18th century. [57] flop opposite of "bop."
The Blight, terraforming microbes in Outpost 2: Divided Destiny; The Blight, a malevolent quasi-Power in the novel A Fire Upon the Deep; Blight, a group of worlds devastated by a dangerous technology in the book Worlds of the Imperium; Blight, a character in the Hunger Games novel Catching Fire and the associated film
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Example sentences are also used as a base for exercises. Charles Kelly and Paul Raine, both EFL teachers in Japan, have developed language learning activities based on sentences curated from the Tatoeba Corpus. [34] [35] Clozemaster is a language self-study program that generates gamified cloze tests from Tatoeba sentence pairs. [36]
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