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Mar 11, 2013 · Senior Member. London. English - South-East England. Mar 11, 2013. #5. A pronunciation point. In the positive form, the /l/ is syllabic: the word has two syllables no-ble. When you add an ending, the /l/ is no longer a separate syllable, so the comparative is the two-syllabled no-bler, not three-syllabled no-bl-er. (For most people, anyway.)
Feb 19, 2014 · This book has presented various techniques to identify if the word is negative or positive if you do not know the actual meaning of the word. So in one example the word is benevolence, and the book says, the prefix bene- is used in tons of positive words, benefit, benefactor, bengin, beneficent. so it is apparently a positive word.
Apr 12, 2008 · When I was a kid, it was "funniest," but somewhere along the line they seem to have changed the rule, because now I hear "most funny" and "most happy" everywhere. My understanding has been that two syllable words can be treated in two ways: 1) "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." 2) "That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard."
Jun 9, 2024 · “Joining the William Pye water sculpture and Philip Jebb’s noble neo-classical folly, both monuments to the fallen great trees that they succeeded, the Heatherwick Glasshouse and new Silk Route Garden imbue Woolbeding with even more delight, beauty and pleasure for all who come to what Disraeli called ‘the loveliest valley in the land’.”
Oct 21, 2016 · The Æ is one of those symbols that suited perfectly the pronunciation scheme of Anglo-Saxon (= Old English) right up to 1065. Then the Normans came in and tried to impose French spelling, abandoning Æ, ð, kw and several other Old English forms that were unknown to them. The result is the mess that is English spelling to this day.
Jan 6, 2012 · And "carrots", although apparently plural, is in this context behaving like an uncountable noun. You could also say "My favourite vegetable is carrot." The difference being that carrot (singular) is likely to be somewhat further from the original intact vegetable than "carrots". See also mashed/pureed carrots = carrots.
Apr 5, 2018 · "maiden, young girl; woman of noble birth, damsel, lady, lady in waiting," also "the Virgin Mary," c. 1200, perhaps a variant of birth (n.) "birth, lineage," confused with burd and bride (q.q.v.), but felt by later writers as a figurative use of bird (n.1), which originally meant "young bird" and sometimes in Middle English was extended to the ...
