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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
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| Added by: senechka | Karma: 27.18 | Black Hole | 6 December 2009 |
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 As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly...
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| Tags: where, moving, stuck, lsquocolonelrsquo, swiftly, meanings, participial, different, lsquosetrsquo, rsquo, lsquo, Bryson |
