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meaning - What is proverbial town pump? - English Language Usage . . . The town whore is called the town pump because every man in town has handled them The man in the opening passage is not being likened to a whore His popularity in Dublin is being likened to a generic town whore's local notoriety The word 'proverbial' as used here means 'stereotypical' and it is a delicate reference to a person not to an object that draws water
What is a term for someone who has never left their home region? There's nothing wrong with parochial - defined by google as having a limited or narrow outlook or scope synonyms: narrow-minded, small-minded, provincial, insular, narrow, small-town, inward-looking, limited, restricted, localist, conservative, conventional, short-sighted, petty, close-minded, blinkered, myopic, introverted, illiberal, hidebound, intolerant; parish-pump; informal jerkwater
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Other instances in which the word was invoked deprecatingly involved the otherwise mainstream vocabularies of a disliked telegraph office manager in a big city in Ohio and a somewhat eccentric magistrate in a small town in Illinois The strong association of "irregardless" with dialect seems to be primarily a creature of the twentieth century
If my boat is sinking should I bale or bail the water out? From various literary examples it appears that I should manually 'bail' out the water to keep afloat but the automated water removal system in my vessel is a 'baling pump' While there is this, I
Etymology of -by suffix in proper nouns - English Language Usage . . . Which General Reference contains this information? I see in the OED that -by in names is from an obsolete noun by meaning "A place of habitation; a village or town", which appears have the etymology you suggest But I was unable to find this information in any online sources
When do we use arrive at versus arrive in? we don't usually say "in New York" or "at the station" when we say about the direction We usually say "to New York" or "to the station" With ariive it's a different story! That's why it's confusing
past tense - “I have been travelling” or “I had been. . . ” or “I was . . . 0 The first and third excuses are reasonable, the second is not so good I would use "had" but in a different sense, to make it seem as though it was not your fault I had to travel from my home town, and I caught the first bus out
offensive language - What is the etymology of BFE? - English Language . . . The cultural origin of the original fictional town (the famous "squeal like a pig" scene) was lost, but the idea of backward sodomites in a foreign world survived the translation As for the abbreviation, well, that's something that tends to happen quickly in the world of SMS and tweets
Is it a City, Province, State or a District? And How to Properly . . . One way of picturing a metropolitan area is the territory covered by broadcast television stations, because usually over-the-air signals can travel maybe 80 km (50 miles), and do not stop for city and town borders Reading the Wikipedia article, I see that Cairo is also a governorate
Situated vs. located - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I found the following example in my vocabulary: The town is situated on a plateau high up among the mountains of the north Can I replace situated with located for the example above? What's the