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A formerly common refrain in Yorkshire dialect for admonishing children who misused the familiar form was: Don't thee tha them as thas thee! In modern English: Don't you "tha" those who "tha" you! In other words: Don't use the familiar form "tha" towards those who refer to you as "tha". ("tha" being the local dialectal variant of "thou")
A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in poetry—the "chorus" of a song. Poetic fixed forms that feature refrains include the villanelle , the virelay , and the sestina .
A colloquial name or familiar name is a name or term commonly used to identify a person or thing in non-specialist language, in place of another usually more formal or technical name. [ 13 ] In the philosophy of language , "colloquial language" is ordinary natural language , as distinct from specialized forms used in logic or other areas of ...
As in many other European languages, English at the time had a T–V distinction, which made the plural forms more respectful and deferential; they were used to address strangers and social superiors. [3] This distinction ultimately led to familiar thou becoming obsolete in modern English, although it persists in some English dialects.
The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...
De English confusion to Popery drink. (Refrain) And, by my shoul, de mash house pull down, While dey were swearing de Mayor of de town. (Refrain) Oh, fait and be, I'll mauke de decree, And swar by de Chancellor's modesty; (Refrain) Dat I no longer in English will stay, For be Goad, dey will hang us out of de way. (Refrain)
A refrain is a line or lines repeated in a verse or song. Refrain may also refer to: "Refrain" (Lys Assia song), winner of Eurovision 1956 "Refrain" (Mamoru Miyano song), 2009; Refrain (Stockhausen), a 1966 composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen; Refrain, a 2020 album by Boris and Z.O.A "Refrain", a 1988 song by James from Strip-mine
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