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Californication is a portmanteau of California and fornication, appearing in Time on May 6, 1966 [1] and written about on August 21, 1972, additionally seen on bumper stickers in the U.S. states of Idaho, [2] Washington, [3] Colorado, Oregon, Oklahoma, [4] [5] and Texas. [6]
Views vary with geography and culture, over time, and among individuals. Many terms that some people view as harmful are not viewed as hurtful by others, and even where some people are hurt by certain terms, others may be hurt by the replacement of such terms with what they consider to be euphemisms (e.g., "differently abled" or "special needs ...
The stakes, in other words, are high. So he made a few big promises to match. ... no matter how unsympathetic a defendant, in both state and federal court for the same alleged misconduct strains ...
Sometimes the Germanic term has become rare, or restricted to special meanings: tide, time/temporal, chronic. [13] Many bound morphemes in English are borrowed from Latin and Greek and are synonyms for native words or morphemes: fish, pisci-(L), ichthy-(Gk). Another source of synonyms is coinages, which may be motivated by linguistic purism.
In the life of your child, you easily exchange thousands of words every day, or at the very least every week. And while many of these conversations may seem normal and even fairly inconsequential ...
There are many nicknames of San Francisco, California that have been used throughout the city's history. [1] [2] San Fran – Used by non-native residents and those outside of the Bay Area. Curtis Sparrer from Bospar gives the reasons why it is not acceptable to say 'San Fran'. [3] [4]
California is stripping the word “squaw” – a derogatory term for Indigenous women – from dozens of place names across 15 counties, state agencies recently announced. For decades, the names ...
a musical note with a duration of one count in a time signature of 4/4 (common time) (US: quarter note; see Note value) cuddly toy soft toy (sometimes used in the US; also stuffed animal, plush toy). Occurs as the title of the Monkees' song "Cuddly Toy", written by Nilsson. cuppa [cup of] tea (never coffee or other beverage) current account