BUKU BASA INGGRIS KAKAIT KARO «SESQUIPEDALIANISM»
Temukaké kagunané saka
sesquipedalianism ing pilihan bibliografi iki. Buku kang kakait dening
sesquipedalianism lan pethikan cekak kang padha kanggo nyediyakaké panggunané ing sastra Basa Inggris.
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The GRE Test For Dummies
Improperly use sesquipedalianism. Sesqui means one and a half; for example, a
sesqui- centennial celebration is a 150-year anniversary. Ped means foot.
Sesquipedalianism is using foot-and-a-half-long words . . . in other words, putting
your ...
Suzee Vlk, Michelle Rose Gilman, Veronica Saydak, 2012
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Writing in the Works, 2009 MLA Update Edition
Eschew Sesquipedalianism; Use Your Natural Vocabulary Sometimes writers are
tempted to pump some air into flabby prose by inserting hundreddollar words in
their writing. Almost always, the result sounds awkward, unnatural, even ...
Susan Blau, Kathryn Burak, 2009
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The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words
Not as effective, perhaps, on the whole, as an aid to obfuscation, as the
sesquipedalianism fostered by this book, always assuming, if you will forgive a
somewhat Jamesian digression (Henry, that is to say, in contradistinction to P. D.)
that ...
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Public Relations Writing: Form & Style
The professor's comment scribbled across the top of the paper was simply: "Avoid
sesquipedalianism." Because the student's vocabulary wasn't that large, he
scurried to a dictionary to look up sesquipedalianism. He found it to mean the ...
Doug Newsom, Jim Haynes, 2010
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The Green Suit: Stories
“How do you spell sesquipedalianism?” he asked. "As in, 'He was guilty ofa
multitude of sins, including sesquipedalianism.'” He turned down the radio. I
spelled it, obediently, like a child called upon in class. “It's a five-dollar word, I
know, but ...
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Princeton Alumni Weekly
In her November 22 review of Pearson Man: '86's novel On the W1] to the Venus
de Milo, Andrea Gollin '88 states that the author is “afflicted. . .with
sesquipedalianism. Of the 33 words I was sure I had never seen before, my
dictionary had only ...
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Buttering Parsnips, Twocking Chavs: The Secret Life Of The ...
Sesquipedalianism. Longest. words. For the purposes of the following list of
longest words certain categories have been ignored. These include words that
have never been used by anyone except their creator (for instance, James
Joyce's ...
SESQUIPEDALIANISM AND SAFETY "We must stamp out sesquipedalianism if
we are to have effective safety programs," warned Gary Beats.
Sesquipedalianism refers to the use of long words. "Words are safety hazards all
by themselves," ...
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The poetical works, collected by himself
The name of this arsenal is a tolerable specimen of Mexican sesquipedalianism ;
Tlacochcalcoatlyacapan. — Tonqnmvmnx , l. 8. c. 13. Cortes consumed all the
Weapons of this arsenal in the infamous execution of Qualpopoca, and his ...
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The Last Word: Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue
Since ideas are complex, coining isms inevitably leads to sesquipedalianism (the
use of words that are a foot-and-a-half long). The most famous is '
antidisestablishmentarianism': a term coined to describe those who opposed
Gladstone's ...
BABAGAN WARTA KANG NGLEBOKAKÉ ARAN «SESQUIPEDALIANISM»
Weruhi yèn pawarta nasional lan internasional wis ngomongaké lan kepriyé aran
sesquipedalianism digunakaké ing babagan warta iki.
Welsh Westender, with John Owen-Jones: Song words and long …
My next composition might use some more interesting lyrics though. Perhaps my favourite word: sesquipedalianism. I think I should definitely use that. Look it up. «Llanelli Star, Apr 14»
Best of 2013 (Behind the Scenes): How 'Sleepy Hollow' dreamed up …
And we avoid the kind of, “listen, I'm an erudite British person, and I use long $50 words” – there's that great term, “meretricious sesquipedalianism,” which is the ... «Entertainment Weekly, Des 13»
That Week On TV: Northern Soul - Keep the Faith, BBC2; Question …
But his sesquipedalianism, old jokes about Ed Miliband looking like Wallace from Wallace & Gromit (he'd apparently delivered a “monody” at the Labour ... «Radio Times, Sep 13»
[WATCH] Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch have cable news-style 'debate …
“So many grouchy words start with 's', like smelly, and slimy, stinky, and sesquipedalianism.” Colbert protested the accord. “The whole idea of the show is ... «Red Alert Politics, Sep 13»
Reading Levels of the State of the Union Addresses
The scoring methods were opaque, and I'm pretty sure I thought it was based on word length, where sesquipedalianism was richly rewarded. One of the ... «Wired, Jun 13»
Baseball ProGUESTus On the Origin of the Switch-Hitting Species
... and ventures few answers, while demonstrating proclivities towards sesquipedalianism, circumlocution, and the unintentional misuse of foreign languages. «Baseball Prospectus, Mei 13»
Don't take the fun out of English
One concedes that proliferating sesquipedalianism is not sustainable, but a mandate against “mandate” seems rather a grim assessment of Calgarians' reading ... «National Post, Mei 13»
Can the police force be trusted to investigate its own failures?
SIR – The term that Gill Tweed and other students of Boris and his vocabulary (Letters, December 20) are seeking is sesquipedalianism, the habitual use of long ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Des 12»
Reginald Hill: crime with a light touch
When Pascoe rebukes himself for his tendency towards “redundant sesquipedalianism”, he is gently mocking his creator too. But Hill is not so much showing off ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 12»
Battlefield 3 Multiplayer
In fact, at the risk of eschewing sesquipedalianism and waxing unnecessarily pedantic, it's unexpurgatedly awesome. (Note: we're writing this one special for ... «Military.com, Nov 11»
