Sentences with phrase «about etymology»

They also tell us something about the etymology of «legal malpractice».

As they talked about Etymology.

If these beetles do primarily feed on slime mold, I'd say the taxonomist that named them really did think about the etymology of the binomen before naming them.

Not exact matches

«Moving these «holydays» (how the etymology of that word says so much about what they were to our culture) represents a symbolic retreat of huge proportions; conceding the notion that the secular world and the imperative of its ephemeral commitments must now be considered more real than the way in which the divine has entered our history and shaped it.»

But knowing the truth about Malasana's etymology only increases my appreciation of it.

Oliver's insouciant self - confidence clearly derives from his combination of high erudition — he thinks nothing of, practically on arrival, engaging with the professor in a duel of etymology about the derivation of the word «apricot» — and the looks of an Adonis.

I suspect we still differ quite a bit about the appropriateness of the interrelation of morphology, etymology and phonology (as structured word inquiry does) from the beginning of formal word - level literacy instruction.

I read this while commuting to work on a ferry and soaked up all things nautical: the etymology of the word knot, the strategy of the ship's owners, and sailors» superstitions about renaming a ship (don't do it!)

Her work creates a commentary about «beginnings» and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific no0on of etymology.

This etymology lesson comes from the fact that not much else can be found out about this alternative space or this opening online — peruse the gallery website and see for yourself moiety.nyc.

What this paucity of cases tells us about the meaning of the term has more to do with its novelty than its etymology.

Subscribers ask each other questions about grammar, syntax, and etymology for multiple languages.

Etymology Accounts differ about the origin of the name.

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