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Skilled users of the language can produce effects such as humor by varying the normal patterns of collocation. This approach is popular with poets , journalists and advertisers . Collocations may seem natural to native writers and speakers, but are not obvious to non-native speakers.
Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody.
In 1933, Harold Palmer's Second Interim Report on English Collocations highlighted the importance of collocation as a key to producing natural-sounding language, for anyone learning a foreign language. [11] Thus from the 1940s onwards, information about recurrent word combinations became a standard feature of monolingual learner's dictionaries.
The Facetiae is an anthology of jokes by Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), first published in 1470. It was the first printed joke book. The collection, "the most famous jokebook of the Renaissance", [1] is notable for its inclusion of scatological jokes and tales, six of the tales involving flatulation humor and six involving defecation.
1933-Second Interim Report on English Collocations, A New Classification of English Tones; 1934-Specimens of English Construction Patterns, An Essay in Lexicology; 1937-Thousand-Word English(With A. S. Hornby) 1938-A Grammar of English Words; 1940-The Teaching of Oral English; 1943-International English Coursestarted.
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List of 18th-century British children's literature titles; List of 19th-century British children's literature titles; List of Australian crime-related books and media; List of anonymously published works; List of autobiographies; Lists of banned books; List of books written by children or teenagers; List of book titles taken from literature
The popularity of the jokes was greatly enhanced by the numerous Ole and Lena joke books authored by Red Stangland. [1] One reason that the Ole and Lena jokes have endured and thrive is that they are quaint and well-meaning. Ole, Lena, Sven and others still speak with the marring accent and fractured English of the immigrant who just arrived.