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Non-standard: After finding the suspected bomb, Pennsylvania state police were called in to diffuse it. [45] desert and dessert. As a verb, desert means to abandon. As a noun, desert is a barren or uninhabited place; an older meaning of the word is "what one deserves", as in the idiom just deserts. A dessert is the last course of a meal.
Over time two or more rows of seats were added to the flat surface to carry passengers to a shoot, with an area behind for their guns and, if successful after the shoot, their birds. Thus, the name "shooting break." Sadly, people confused "break" for "brake," not knowing the history of this carriage.
Jargon aphasia is a type of fluent aphasia in which an individual's speech is incomprehensible, but appears to make sense to the individual. Persons experiencing this condition will either replace a desired word with another that sounds or looks like the original one, or has some other connection to it, or they will replace it with random sounds.
Image credits: saludpesetasamor #3. Hearing from other kids how generous their parents were: Taking them to a pediatrician, giving them basic advice, caring about their feelings, helping them out ...
A San Jose teen started Teens for Vaccines during a measles outbreak in 2019. Now the group helps minors hoping to persuade their parents to let them get vaccinated.
An emotion, elicited via emotive language, may form a prima facie reason for action, but further work is required before one can obtain a considered reason. [ 2 ] Emotive arguments and loaded language are particularly persuasive because they exploit the human weakness for acting immediately based upon an emotional response, without such further ...
It vividly describes every bodily response that occurs from the first sip, right through to 60 minutes after drinking the entire can. Here's what happens to your body every 10 minutes as you're ...
AFA created "One Million Moms" and "One Million Dads", two websites with the stated goal of mobilizing parents to "stop the exploitation of children" by the media. It uses these websites to organize boycotts and urge activists to send emails to mainstream companies employing advertising, selling products, or advertising on television shows they ...