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A better estimate is 15.7m. "The full unedited diaries [in 2007] amount to around fifteen million words." [8] Heinrich Witt: 18 million: 70 years: 1859–1890: Witt (1799–1892) was born in Germany, lived in Peru, and wrote in English. [9] Arthur Crew Inman: 17 million: 44 years: 1919–1963: 155 volumes. [10] Other accounts state 10 million ...
The use of the word "ambitious" in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), for example, points to its use to describe someone who is ruthless in seeking out positions of power and influence: The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault. [1]
The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters). Nine-letter words include flagfalls; eight-letter words include galahads and alfalfas. Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be ...
The album ends with his longest studio track ever, “Murder Most Foul,” a staggeringly ambitious, but also funny and tangential, 17-minute survey of American history since the JFK assassination ...
This is a list of folk heroes, a type of hero – real, fictional or mythological – with their name, personality and deeds embedded in the popular consciousness of a people, mentioned frequently in folk songs, folk tales and other folklore; and with modern trope status in literature, art and films.
But a word to the wise: If you want the Capricorn man to become a permanent fixture in your life, don’t expect him to rush headlong into love. The zodiac’s Goats are cautious climbers, sizing ...
The Words of the Year usually reflect events that happened during the years the lists were published. For example, the Word of the Year for 2005, 'integrity', showed that the general public had an immense interest in defining this word amid ethics scandals in the United States government, corporations, and sports. [1]
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z