Sentences with phrase «many etymologists»
Jaws portrayed sharks as villains, and some etymologists believe the word shark may derive from earlier German and Dutch words for shifty characters.
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Some etymologists think the phrase refers to dead animals washed into the streets after a downpour.
Still other etymologists lobby for an Arabic origin of the word, which may have arrived in Mexico via Moorish Spain.
The discovery of another symbiotic microbe in leaf - cutter ant fungal gardens is «very exciting,» says etymologist Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. «When I first got into this stuff, we thought it was a... two - partner symbiosis.
Donald Pleasence's wheelchair - bound Scottish etymologist and a razor - wielding chimp also join her team.
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The Internet offers many tools for young etymologists and an abundance of great ideas for teaching vocabulary and spelling.
Some say that's the source of the colloquialism, although many etymologists, abstainers or not, disagree.
On John Carters climate blog where the posts are so long, etymologists are working on a more extreme saying several orders of magnitude beyond «verbal diarrhea».
This question came from our site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts.
- Anatoly Liberman, blogger The Oxford Etymologist and author of An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology; «Enlightening, engaging and essential.»
An etymologist or grammarian might agree with the appellants that a vane of any type is still a vane.
However, the patent specification is not addressed to grammarians, etymologists or to the public generally, but to skilled individuals sufficiently versed in the art to which the patent relates to enable them on a technical level to appreciate the nature and description of the invention...