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Habitants provided the local church and rectory, which were commonly used as meeting places and as community halls, and emergency food stores were often kept in the church's attic. [10] Habitants also viewed Sunday Mass as not only a time for worship but also a time for communal gathering and socializing. [citation needed]
William Henry Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world," [1] and "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada.
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents. A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy".
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Abstract interpretation of Carcosa. Carcosa is a fictional city in Ambrose Bierce's short story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (1886).The ancient and mysterious city is barely described and is viewed only in hindsight (after its destruction) by a character who once lived there.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.
More broadly, the term cohabitation can mean any number of people living together. To "cohabit", in a broad sense, means to "exist together". [1] The origin of the term comes from the mid 16th century, being used as early as 1530. [1] It's from the Latin cohabitare, from co- 'together' + habitare 'dwell'.