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n. 通晓数种语言的人;用通晓数种语言记载的书 (polyglot的变形)

Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is What's with those people who talk weird? or regionalisms. Language is constantly changing, and a lot of people have asked me about how and why it happens. This isn't my area of expertise, but I've done a lot of rea

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By Mike O'Sullivan Jackson, California 24 April 2007 The colorful history of the Gold Rush is being kept alive in a handful of towns in the Western U.S. state of California. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan has more from the town of Jackson, a multicultural com

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Books and Arts; Book Review; The cold war; Feel of history; 文艺;书评;冷战;感怀历史; The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War. By Norman Stone. 《大西洋和它的对手们:冷战史》 诺曼斯通著。 Imagine

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Matthew Youlden speaks nine languages fluently and understands more than a dozen more. In fact, for the longest time I didnt even know he was British. When I told Matthew how Ive been struggling to merely pick up a second language, he had the followi

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ader wax
air cushion seaplane
anaphalis alpicola mak.
at your back
atrophiated
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beta-Cliachite
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calibration measurement
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Epodyl
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glycerin monopropionate
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