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Emphasis , EMPHASIS. A use of language to mark importance or significance, through either intensity of expression or linguistic features such as STRESS and INTO… Word , WORD
WORD A fundamental term in both the general and technical discussion of language. The following selection of primary definitions of word is draw… Loanword , LOANWORD, also loan-word, loan word. A WORD taken into one language from another: in English, garage from French, leitmotif from German. Such words a… split infinitive , SPLIT INFINITIVE. A prescriptive term for an INFINITIVE phrase such as to cut or to enjoy that has been opened up (‘split’, ‘cleft’) by the insertion… CATACHRESIS , CATACHRESIS [Stress: ‘kata-KREE-sis’]. A traditional term for the mistaken use of one word for another, as in Royal Anglican Regiment for Royal Angli… Woden , Woden another name for Odin.
Woden See Odin
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