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Cant is a common feature of rogue literature of the Elizabethan era in England, in both pamphlets and theatre.It was claimed by Samuel Rid to have been devised around 1530 by two vagabond leaders – Giles Hather, of the "Egyptians", and Cock Lorell, of the "Quartern of Knaves" – at The Devil's Arse, a cave in Derbyshire, "to the end that their cozenings, knaveries and villainies might not ...
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An example is the ceremony of "stalling a rogue" which Harman describes. In this an Upright Man pours beer over the head of the initiate, with the words, "I, G.P., do stall thee, W.T., to the rogue, and that henceforth it shall be lawful for you to cant . . . for thy living in all places".
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The rules governing argument marking are complex in passives of verbs with more than one object, such as inherently bitransitive verbs like tē-tla-maca ' to give ' and verbs with additional causative or applicative objects, but it is generally only the animate beneficiary or recipient object which may become the subject of the passivized verb ...
A fossil word is a word that is broadly obsolete but remains in current use due to its presence within an idiom or phrase. [1] [2] An example for a word sense is 'ado' in 'much ado'.
Elision of the second-person singular subject pronoun tu, before the verbs beginning with a vowel or mute h (silent h), and of the particle of negation ne, is very common in informal speech, but is avoided in careful speech and never used in formal writing: [citation needed]