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suite of rooms set aside for a particular person (rare), usu. rented housing unit in a larger building implying luxury (In other words, a narrower definition than the US.) (Overlapping with the rare usage in reference to stately homes or historic properties which have been converted into residential units.)
to hit someone or something hard ("say that again and I'll twat you!" (pronounced /ˈtwæt/) vulva (vulgar) (pronounced /ˈtwɒt/) A vulgar or derogatory term for a woman. [87] twister something that twists; see also Twister (game) a tornado: tyke someone from Yorkshire (informal, sometimes disparaging)
List of tautological place names – Toponyms composed of synonyms; No true Scotsman – Informal logical fallacy; Platitude – Trite, prosaic, or cliché truism; Redundancy (linguistics) – Information that is expressed more than once; Tautophrase – Repetition of an idea in the same words
This is a list of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom.In Canada and Australia, some of the American terms listed are widespread; however, in some cases, another usage is preferred.
A heteronym is a homograph that is not a homophone, a word that has a different pronunciation and meaning from another word with the same spelling.Heteronym pronunciation may vary in vowel realisation, in stress pattern, or in other ways.
A mispronunciation of "polyglot", as if it were spelled "polyflot" In linguistics, mispronunciation is the act of pronouncing a word incorrectly. [1] [2] Languages are pronounced in different ways by different people, depending on factors like the area they grew up in, their level of education, and their social class.
Non-standard: Seneca Jones Timber Co. executives say the pipe will effect 2,000 acres of their timberland, another 1,000 acres of property for roads, as well as public lands where Seneca harvests and transports logs. [18] Non-standard: The rain effected our plans for the day. Non-standard: We tried appeasing the rain gods, but to no affect.
The two words may be spelled the same, for example rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or spelled differently, as in rain, reign, and rein. The term homophone sometimes applies to units longer or shorter than words, for example a phrase, letter, or groups of letters which are pronounced the same as a counterpart.