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  2. Everyday life - Wikipedia

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    The Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Everyday life is a key concept in cultural studies and is a specialized subject in the field of sociology.Some argue that, motivated by capitalism and industrialism's degrading effects on human existence and perception, writers and artists of the 19th century turned more towards self-reflection and the portrayal of everyday life represented in their ...

  3. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    since and sense. Since is used as an adverb or a preposition to imply the same meaning as "after then" or "from" in a sentence. Sense is a noun meaning any method to gather data about an environment. Standard: I have known her since last year. Standard: My sense of smell is weak. Non-standard: I won't go sense I have no fuel.

  4. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    Innocent: often wrongly believed to have the original meaning of "not knowing", as if it came from Latin noscere (to know); in fact it comes from nocere (to harm), and the primary sense is "harmless". Isle and island: The word "isle" is not short for "island", nor is the word "island" an extension of "isle"; the words are unrelated.

  5. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    food outlet where one can order food to go (or be delivered) (not usually applied to fast food chains). Usage: "we had a takeaway for dinner", "we went to the local takeaway". [DM]; (US: takeout) take the piss (vulgar) / take the mickey (slang) to make fun of somebody or something; to act in a non-serious manner about something important.

  6. Comparative illusion - Wikipedia

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    It does not make sense. (da: 7.9%; sv: 28.0%) Paraphrase (d) is in fact the only possible interpretation of (1); this is possible due to the lexical ambiguity of har "have" between an auxiliary verb and a lexical verb just as the English have ; however the majority of participants (da: 78.9%; sv: 56%) gave a paraphrase which does not follow ...

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    Don't worry about relying on your browser's spell check feature. With AOL Mail, click one button to check the entire contents of your email to ensure that everything is spelled correctly. In addition, you'll never need worry about typos or misspelled words again by enabling auto spell check.

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  9. Vagueness - Wikipedia

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    To formulate them, however, it is necessary to build a more precise language, with less (internal) vagueness of message than is common in daily life. This is done by purposefully (branch) constructed terminology allowing to more accurately describe the researched reality and the acquired knowledge about it.