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The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...
WordNet aims to cover most everyday words and does not include much domain-specific terminology. WordNet is the most commonly used computational lexicon of English for word-sense disambiguation (WSD), a task aimed at assigning the context-appropriate meanings (i.e. synset members) to words in a text. [14]
When we speak of English as a foreign language (EFL), we are referring to the role of English for learners in a country where English is not spoken by the majority (what Braj Kachru calls the expanding circle). English as a second language (ESL) refers to the role of English for learners in an English-speaking country, i.e. usually immigrants ...
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The Time Bind, a 1997 book, [10] was mentioned in Newsweek's multi-page feature about "The Myth of Quality Time". [1] The same issue of Newsweek had a full-page review [11] of another 1997 book, Time for Life, [12] which emphasizes that most people have a flawed "ability to separate faulty perception of time use from reality."
It’s time to change that. The psychology of dirty talk “hasn’t received a ton of study,” says Justin Lehmiller, Ph.D., a researcher at the Kinsey Institute and MH advisor.
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is composed of one billion words as of November 2021. [1] [2] [4] The corpus is constantly growing: In 2009 it contained more than 385 million words; [5] in 2010 the corpus grew in size to 400 million words; [6] by March 2019, [7] the corpus had grown to 560 million words.
Talking past each other" is an English phrase describing the situation where two or more people talk about different subjects, while believing that they are talking about the same thing. [ 1 ] David Horton writes that when characters in fiction talk past each other, the effect is to expose "an unbridgeable gulf between their respective ...