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The word " Bohemian " was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word " Czech " became prevalent in English.
In most other European vernaculars and in Latin ( as Bohemi ), the word " Bohemian " or a derivate was used.
It was not until the 19th century that other European languages began to use the word " Czechs " ( in English – Tschechen in German, Tchèques in French ) in a deliberate ( and successful ) attempt to distinguish between Bohemian Slavs and other inhabitants of Bohemia ( mostly Germans ).
Zíbrt also ironically dismisses the etymology suggested by A. Fähnrich ( in Ein etymologisches Taschenbuch, Jiein, 1846 ) that it derives from the Bohemian word pole, i. e., " field ".
" Bohemian Rhapsody " by Queen is unusual as it is a pastiche in both senses of the word, as there are many distinct styles imitated in the song, all ' hodge-podged ' together to create one piece of music.
The impish American writer and Bohemian Club member, Gelett Burgess, who coined the word blurb among other things, supplied this description of the amorphous place called Bohemia:
The Iranian authorities permitted an album of songs by English rock band Queen to be released in Iran in August 2004, partly because the song " Bohemian Rhapsody " contained several exclamations of the word Bismillah.

word and was
How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.
'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.
There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.
Hot, that was the word, hot!!
Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.
This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.
Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.
That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.
A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.
The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.
The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.
If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.
Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.
It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

word and never
There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.
if it had never printed a word of literature its contribution to the politico-sociological area would still be historic.
Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.
He had never heard the word reactionary before his life as a POW began.
She never said a word about the fifty dollars.
Nevertheless, they made naught of Marx's prophecy that capitalism would never pay the `` workers '' -- to use Marx's word -- more than a subsistence wage, with the consequence that increased productivity must inevitably find its way into the capitalists' pockets with the result, in turn, that the gap between the rich and the poor would irrevocably widen and the misery of the poor increase.
Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!
You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.
The markets are far too subtle, and the last word in these endeavors will doubtless never be written, for the enchanting index is about as nebulous as the fountain of youth.
But the nickname never stuck and Gehrig was no match for Ruth in `` color '' -- which is sometimes a polite word for delinquent behavior on and off the field.
But DiMaggio never said a word.
He gave the impression of never having read a word about art, but there was no doubt that he had an eye for the best.
The bill called for former President George W. Bush to recognize and use the word genocide in his annual April 24 speech which he never used.
When word of the dam's failure was telegraphed to Pittsburgh, Frick and other members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club gathered to form the Pittsburgh Relief Committee for assistance to the flood victims as well as determining never to speak publicly about the club or the flood.
The Latin word has never been recorded in a surgical context, being reserved to indicate punishment for criminals.
These two invasions caused English to become " mixed " to some degree ( though it was never a truly mixed language in the strictest sense of the word ; mixed languages arise from the cohabitation of speakers of different languages, who develop a hybrid tongue for basic communication ).
Historian J. P Harris has pointed out that the Germans never used the word blitzkrieg.
" ( SB 3. 24. 20 ) " The word maha-vrata-dharah indicates a brahmacari who has never fallen down.
Oddly, the official titles of two of the series ' episodes employed the word pregnant: " Lucy Is Enceinte ", employing the French word for pregnant, and " Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable ", although the episode titles never appeared on the show itself.
In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.
A simple example would consist of looking up a given word in a dictionary, then proceeding to look up the words found in that word's definition, etc., also comparing with older dictionaries from different periods in time, and such a process would never end.

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