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  2. Give me liberty or give me death! - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, Wirt's reconstruction is devoid of Henry's rhetorical custom of invoking fear of Indian attacks in promoting independence from Britain. [3] Given Wirt's artistic liberties in reconstructing the speech, it is possible that Henry never uttered the quotation, "Give me liberty or give me death," [ 18 ] and scholars question to what ...

  3. One Word is Too Often Profaned - Wikipedia

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    Shelley wrote a number of poems devoted to Jane including With a Guitar, To Jane, One Word is Too Often Profaned, To Jane: The Invitation, To Jane: The Recollection and To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling. [2] In One Word is Too Often Profaned, Shelley rejects the use of the word Love to describe his relationship with Jane. He says that this ...

  4. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    Mood is distinct from grammatical tense or grammatical aspect, although the same word patterns are used for expressing more than one of these meanings at the same time in many languages, including English and most other modern Indo-European languages. (See tense–aspect–mood for a discussion of this.)

  5. St Crispin's Day Speech - Wikipedia

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    The St Crispin's Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare's history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii(3) 18–67. On the eve of the Battle of Agincourt , which fell on Saint Crispin's Day , Henry V urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the French, to imagine the glory and immortality that will be theirs if they are victorious.

  6. ‘Brain Rot’ is Oxford’s Word of the Year - AOL

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    Credit - Denis Novikov—iStock/Getty Images. I f you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the publisher of the Oxford ...

  7. Makes the Whole World Kin - Wikipedia

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    The old man can only lift one arm and proceeds to inform the thief that he suffers from rheumatism. The thief, shocked at what he hears, lowers the gun and tells his victim that he as well, suffers from the disease. They proceed to exchange words of comfort about the haunting pain, and the young thief asks for tips to dull the swellings. Though ...

  8. Tense–aspect–mood - Wikipedia

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    [18]: p.76 The indicative mood has simple forms (one word, but conjugated by person and number) for the present tense, the imperfective aspect in the past tense, the perfective aspect in the past, and the future (and the future form can also be used to express present probability, as in the English "It will be raining now").

  9. Mnemonic peg system - Wikipedia

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    The mnemonic peg system, invented by Henry Herdson, [1] is a memory aid that works by creating mental associations between two concrete objects in a one-to-one fashion that will later be applied to to-be-remembered information. [2]