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A comic version by English entertainer Billy Howard, "King of the Cops", was a British chart hit in 1976. [9] In both the English and German versions of Animals United (2010), Billy the Meerkat sings this song while Across to “The Valley of Death”. [10] "King of the Road" won Roger Miller 5 Grammy Awards at the 1966 8th Annual Grammy Awards ...
King of the Road (skateboarding), a contest sponsored by Thrasher magazine; King of the Road Map Service, an American map company; Hard Truck 2: King of the Road, the European version of the video game Hard Truck 2; Lucas Industries#King of the Road, a brand name used for a range of bicycle equipment produced by Lucas Industries
The King's English is a book on English usage and grammar. It was written by the brothers Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler and published in 1906; [1] it thus predates by twenty years Modern English Usage, which was written by Henry alone after Francis's death in 1918.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...
whale-road hron-rād: N,OE: Beowulf 10: "In the end, each clan on the outlying coasts beyond the whale-road had to yield to him and begin to pay tribute" the sea sail road seġl-rād: OE: Beowulf 1429 b the sea whale's way hwæl-weġ: N,OE: The Seafarer 63 a; Beowulf: serpent valley-trout N: Skaldskaparmal: shield headland of swords sverða nesi
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, published in 1926, considered by many to be the definitive style guide to the English language, "made the name of Fowler a household word in all English-speaking countries". [20] The Times described it as a "fascinating, formidable book". [21] Winston Churchill directed his officials to read it. [20]
The play appears to have debuted in 1900. [1] According to one description the play was "founded on episodes in the careers of the old time bushrangers Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner and the gangs that, in the days before telegraphs and railway extension, kept parts of this colony and Victoria in a state of terrorism."
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).