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On Ugliness (Italian: Storia della bruttezza) is a 2007 essay edited by Italian author Umberto Eco, originally published by Bompiani in 2007. The book is a continuation of Eco's 2004 aesthetic work On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea. [1]
An interlingual homograph is a word that occurs in more than one written language, but which has a different meaning or pronunciation in each language. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For example the word "done" is an adjective in English (pronounced /dʌn/), a verb in Spanish (present subjunctive form of donar ) and a noun in Czech (vocative singular form of don ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 November 2024. Aesthetically unfavorable characteristic The Ugly Duchess (painting by Quentin Matsys, c. 1513) Unattractiveness or ugliness is the degree to which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically unfavorable. Terminology Ugliness is a property of a person or thing that is ...
This is a list of words that occur in both the English language and the Spanish language, but which have different meanings and/or pronunciations in each language. Such words are called interlingual homographs. [1] [2] Homographs are two or more words that have the same written form.
A hyperforeignism is a type of hypercorrection where speakers identify an inaccurate pattern in loanwords from a foreign language and then apply that pattern to other loanwords (either from the same language or a different one). [1] This results in a pronunciation of those loanwords which does not reflect the rules of either language. [2]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... Ugly may refer to: Ugliness, ...
For languages written in other writing systems, write "Romanization - native script (language)", for example "Argentine - אַרגענטינע (Yiddish)", and alphabetize it in the list by the Romanized form. Due to its size, this list has been split into four parts: List of country names in various languages (A–C)
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