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The trouble with too many things
Hoarding is a slippery subject – difficult to define or diagnose. As she tries to explain the intensity of her grandma’s collecting, Georgie Evans finds the words and tools at her disposal aren’t all that helpful.
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My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
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The standard French and English pronouncing dictionary; in two parts. Part I. French and English. Part.II. English and French. Containing several thousand words not inserted in any folio or octavo dictionaries now extant, many of which have been introduced, and sanctioned by the Members of the Constituent and Conventional Assemblies of France; and a greater number of Synonyma, in the signification of Words, than are to be found in any Work printed in the same Size. - The French, as well as the English Words are rationally divided into Syllables, accurately accented, and the various Sounds of the Vowels and local Powers of the Consonants precisely determined by Characteristic Types,-by which, from an Explanatory Key prefixed to each Part, the true Pronunciation of both French and English, is clearly demonstrated by apposite Words, whose Vowels have similar Sounds to those in the other Language, with which they are there contrasted. By W. Perry, Author of the Royal Standard English Dictionary, a General Dictionary of the English Language, &c. &c.
Perry, William, lecturer in the Academy at Edinburgh.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
A dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language. Containing the accentuation - the grammatical inflections - the irregular words referred to their themes - the parallel terms, from the other Gothic languages - the meaning of the Anglo-Saxon in English and Latin - and copious English and Latin indexes, serving as a dictionary of English and Anglo-Saxon, as well as of Latin and Anglo-Saxon / By the Rev. J. Bosworth.
Bosworth, Joseph, 1787 or 1788-1876.Date: 1808 [i.e. 1838]- Books
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The new pocket-dictionary of the English and German languages. In two parts, I. English and German - II. German and English. Composed chiefly after the dictionaries of Adelung, Johnson, and others of the best authorities. In which the parts of speech, and the Genders of the German Nouns, are properly distinguished; each Word accented according to its just and natural Pronunciation; and the Irregularities of the English and German Verbs duly marked. With an alphabetical list of the most usual Christian and proper names, and of the most remarkable Places in the known World.
Date: 1800- Books
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Dictionnaire international français-anglais : comprenant tous les mots de la langue usuelle et de la langue littéraire ... la prononciation du français figurée pour les anglais / par H. Hamilton et E. Legros.
Legros E.Date: 1876- Books
New English - Tibetan dictionary / Norbu Chophel.
Date: 1985