I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The key word in my plays is ' perhaps ' ''.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

The word `` mimesis '' ( `` imitation '' ) is usually associated with Plato and Aristotle.

Complicity is an embarrassing word.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.

To innocence, a word given is a word that will be kept.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

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.

There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Equivalents could be assigned to the paradigm either at the time it is added to the dictionary or after the word has been studied in context.

From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;

When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.

If word classes differ in their resistance or liability to stem replacement within meaning slot, it is conceivable that individual meanings also differ with fair consistence trans-lingually.

Abettor ( from to abet, Old French abeter, à and beter, to bait, urge dogs upon any one ; this word is probably of Scandinavian origin, meaning to cause to bite ), is a legal term implying one who instigates, encourages or assists another to commit an offence.

The word " Bluetooth " is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand / Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom.

The distribution of stød in the lexicon is clearly related to the distribution of the common Scandinavian tonal word accents found in most dialects of Norwegian and Swedish, including the national standard languages.

The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic languages ; but the Scandinavian ones ( like Swedish frände, Danish frænde ) predominatly mean " relative " ( but may also mean soulmate ).

The original word had both the meanings " friend " and " relative " but lost various degrees of the " friend " sense in Scandinavian languages, while it mostly lost the sense of " relative " in English.

Another example is the word gift, which in English and Dutch means a " present " but in German and the Scandinavian languages means " poison " ( the Swedish word for " gift " being gåva, related to the verb " to give ").

The name Alca is a Latin derivative of the Scandinavian word for Razorbills and their relatives.

" Dickson-Wright further cites etymologist Walter William Skeat as further suggestion of possible Scandinavian origins: Skeat claimed that the hag – element of the word is derived from the Old Norse haggw or the Old Icelandic hoggva ( höggva in modern Icelandic ), meaning ' to hew ' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating to the chopped-up contents of the dish.

Mor may derive from an Indo-European root connoting terror or monstrousness, cognate with the Old English maere ( which survives in the modern English word " nightmare ") and the Scandinavian mara and the Old Russian " mara " (" nightmare "); while rígan translates as ' queen '.

Normandy (, pronounced, Norman: Nourmaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normand, originally from the word for " northman " in several Scandinavian languages ) is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy.

For example, the word ' halberd ' is also used to translate the Chinese ji and also a range of medieval Scandinavian weapons as described in sagas, such as the atgeir.

There are more than 1, 500 Scandinavian place names in England, mainly in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ( within the former boundaries of the Danelaw ): over 600 end in-by, the Scandinavian word for " farm " — for example Grimsby, Naseby and Whitby ; many others end in-thorpe (" village "),-thwaite (" clearing "), and-toft (" homestead ").

In that case the word can be explained from the Old Scandinavian maritime distance unit, vika ( f .), which probably originally referred to the distance covered by one shift of rowers.

In that case, the word Viking was not originally connected to Scandinavian seafarers but assumed this meaning when the Scandinavians begun to dominate the seas.

The word Viking derives from the feminine that in Old Scandinavian had the form vík and which means ' a bay '.

In the modern Scandinavian languages, the word Viking usually refers specifically to those people who went on Viking expeditions.

The word comes to English from Norwegian, but related words are used in several Scandinavian languages-in many cases to refer to any long narrow body of water, rather than the more specific meaning it has in English.

Patronymics were composed similarly as in Swedish language or other Scandinavian languages: the father's name and the suffix-n for genitive plus the word poika for sons, tytär for daughters.

In Scandinavian countries, Saturday is called lördag, " lørdag ," or laurdag, the name being derived from the old word laugr / laug ( hence Icelandic name Laugardagur ), meaning bath, thus Lördag equates to bath-day.

In German, the Scandinavian languages, Finnish, and some English Lutherans, use the word " Mass " for their corresponding service, but in most English-speaking churches, they call it the " Divine Service ", " Holy Communion, or " the Holy Eucharist ".

Théoden is referred to as " Théoden King ", rather than " King Théoden ", just as Scandinavian and the Anglo-Saxon era kings had the word konungr / cyning (" king ") added after their names, e. g. Hervarðar konungr, rather than before.

* Jarl, the word for Earl in Scandinavian languages

Jörð is the common word for earth in Old Norse, as are the word's descendants in the modern Scandinavian languages ; Icelandic jörð, Faroese jørð, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord.