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Malapropism. A malapropism (/ ˈmæləprɒpɪzəm /; also called a malaprop, acyrologia or Dogberryism) is the incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound, either unintentionally or for comedic effect, resulting in a nonsensical, often humorous utterance. An example is the statement attributed to baseball player Yogi Berra ...
Medication. Antipsychotics. Capgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, another close family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical impostor. [a] It is named after Joseph Capgras (1873–1950), the French psychiatrist who first described the disorder.
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...
T–V distinction. The T–V distinction is the contextual use of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity. Its name comes from the Latin pronouns tu and vos. The distinction takes a number of forms and indicates varying levels of politeness, familiarity, courtesy, age or even insult toward ...
Satiric misspelling. A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose. This can be achieved with intentional malapropism (e.g. replacing erection for election), enallage (giving a sentence the wrong form, eg. "we was robbed!"), or simply replacing a letter with another letter (for example ...
Thou. v. t. e. The pronoun who, in English, is an interrogative pronoun and a relative pronoun, used primarily to refer to persons. Unmarked, who is the pronoun's subjective form; its inflected forms are the objective whom and the possessive whose.
William Sydney Porter, who went by the pen name O. Henry or Olivier Henry, in 1909. A pseudonym (/ ˈ sj uː d ə n ɪ m /; from Ancient Greek ψευδώνυμος (pseudṓnumos) 'lit. falsely named') or alias (/ ˈ eɪ l i. ə s /) is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ().
Look up one, one's, or oneself in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. One is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". For purposes of verb agreement it is a third-person singular pronoun, though it sometimes appears with first- or second-person reference. It is sometimes called an impersonal pronoun.