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I was for long uncertain about the pronunciation of English words and I have never forgotten the roar of laughter that abashed me when in my preparatory school I read out the phrase ' unstable as water ' as though unstable rhymed with ...
I was for long uncertain about the pronunciation of English words and I have never forgotten the roar of laughter that abashed me when in my preparatory school I read out the phrase ' unstable as water ' as though unstable rhymed with ...
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The plain , honest English speech was overwhelmed with ornament . Blunt Englishmen twisted their tongues to speak like Hebrew prophets . There was evidently something in the English temper to which this was congenial , perhaps a native ...
The plain , honest English speech was overwhelmed with ornament . Blunt Englishmen twisted their tongues to speak like Hebrew prophets . There was evidently something in the English temper to which this was congenial , perhaps a native ...
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English grammar is very difficult and few writers have avoided making mistakes in it . So heedful a writer as Henry James , for instance , on occasion wrote so ungrammatically that a schoolmaster , finding such errors in a schoolboy's ...
English grammar is very difficult and few writers have avoided making mistakes in it . So heedful a writer as Henry James , for instance , on occasion wrote so ungrammatically that a schoolmaster , finding such errors in a schoolboy's ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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