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- What is the 1896 source for the origin of dyke?
a source from 1896 lists dyke as slang for "the vulva " This same sentence is found on the Online Etymology Dictionary, Queer Cafe, Dictionary com, etc (most of which cite the Online Etymology Dictionary)
- Differences between dyke, levee and berm? - English Language Usage . . .
A dyke and a levee are both walls to keep out water It appears that levee is associated only with rivers while dyke can also apply to the sea A berm isn't necessarily associated with damming water It's just a raised area (mound or ledge) of dirt
- How did the word beaver come to be associated with vagina?
What is the etymology of the word beaver as it relates to a woman's vagina?
- Difference between ditch, trench and gutter [closed]
Thus Offa's Dyke is a combined structure and Car Dyke is a trench, though it once had raised banks as well In the midlands and north of England, and in the United States, a dike is what a ditch is in the south, a property boundary marker or small drainage channel
- Suffering succotash - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Welcome to EL U Please note that this is a Q A site, not a discussion forum, but your post does not answer the original question, which asks whether sufferin' succotash was still in common use before the Looney Tunes cartoons were made, years before the Dick Van Dyke Show aired
- grammar - I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith - English . . .
The 1964 Walt Disney film Mary Poppins features the following famous lines: Bert: I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith Uncle Albert: What's the name of his other leg? It is a joke that
- What does shyme mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Looking at it in context, it appears the author is deliberately misspelling words to capture features of the character Thomas Bilder's accent The wonderful paper "Nonstandard Language and the Cultural Stakes of Stoker's 'Dracula'" by Ferguson (2004) describes him as a "cockney" (p 241) As the table on Wikipedia shows, in Cockney the vowel in shame would be pronounced [æɪ~aɪ], much like
- pronunciation - Pronunication of Dijkstra - English Language Usage . . .
I am a computer professional I have heard the pronuciation of the word Dijkstra from various sources as di-kstra diji-kstra dik-stra Which is the correct way of pronouncing it?
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