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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow – William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800) [28] The labourer is worthy of his hire; It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back; The law is an ass (from English writer Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist) The leopard does not change his spots
List of words having different meanings in British and American English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in British and American English: M–Z; List of British words not widely used in the United States
Worth the Wait, by Lindsay Ell, or the title song, 2017; Worth the Wait, by Carnage the Executioner, 2011; Worth the Wait, by Futrel, 1989; Worth the Wait, by Norbotten Big Band, featuring Tim Hagans, 2007; Worth the Wait, by Peaches & Herb, 1980; Worth the Wait, a mixtape by Los, 2011; Worth the Wait, an EP by Dozzi, 2019
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 ...
you all (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’dn't’ve: you all would not have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’re: you all are (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’ren’t: you all are not (colloquial/Southern American English) y ...
In the traditional grammar of Modern English, a phrasal verb typically constitutes a single semantic unit consisting of a verb followed by a particle (e.g., turn down, run into, or sit up), sometimes collocated with a preposition (e.g., get together with, run out of, or feed off of).
a; a few; a little; all; an; another; any; anybody; anyone; anything; anywhere; both; certain (also adjective) each; either; enough; every; everybody; everyone ...
A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion words). [1]