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Gibberish, also known as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, ...
Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 – 12 January 2002), [1] sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comic actor and writer.. He invented his own comic language, "Unwinese", [2] referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as "gobbledygook".
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky comment in their book Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media that Orwellian doublespeak is an important component of the manipulation of the English language in American media, through a process called dichotomization, a component of media propaganda involving "deeply embedded double standards in the reporting of news."
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"Olly olly oxen free" is a catchphrase or truce term used in children's games such as hide and seek, capture the flag, and kick the can to indicate that players who are hiding can come out into the open without losing the game or that the position of the sides in a game has changed [1] (as in which side is on the field or which side is at bat or "up" in baseball or kickball); alternatively ...
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Dionne Warwick recorded the song as part of her LP Soulful in 1969, and it was released as a single in the UK in the same year.; The 5th Dimension recorded "People Got to Be Free" in 1970 as part of a medley with another socially relevant song, Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."
Come to the Cookhouse Door c.1929 [12] Coaling c.1929 [12] Old Sam By Stanley Holloway Stanley Holloway:The Essential Collection (2007) 1930 Alt! Who Goes There? By Stanley Holloway Stanley Holloway:The Essential Collection (2007) 1930 I Thowt Mebbe I Would And I Did By Ernest Melvin Stanley Holloway At His Very Best (2008) 1930 What Care I? By ...