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Denizen Labels Reference library
Garner’s Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...Maldova Maldovan Mali Malian Malta Maltese Martinique Martiniquais Mexico Mexican Micronesia Micronesian Monaco Monacan, Monegasque Mongolia Mongolian Morocco Moroccan Myanmar Burmese, Myanmarese Nepal Nepalese The Netherlands Hollander, Netherlander, ✳Netherlandian New Zealand New Zealander Nicaragua Nicaraguan Niger Nigerien ( /nɪ-jir-ee- en / ) Nigeria Nigerian ( /nɪ- jir -ee-әn/ ) Norway Norwegian Oman Omani Pakistan Pakistani Palau Palauan Panama Panamanian Paraguay Paraguayan Peru Peruvian Philippines Filipino Poland Pole Portugal Portuguese Puerto...
Obscurity Reference library
Garner’s Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...difficult, and difficult ideas are often made much more difficult than they need to be. Obscurity has myriad causes, most of them rooted in imprecise thought or lack of consideration for the reader. The following examples are winners of a “Bad Writing Contest” held in New Zealand in 1997 . All three are by English professors—the first two American and the third British: • “The visual is essentially pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt mindless fascination; thinking about its attributes becomes an adjunct to that, if it is...
English Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (2 ed.)
...The West Germanic language that first developed in England and southern Scotland, and is now spoken throughout the British Isles and in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the West Indies, as well as by significant communities in southern Africa, south and south-east Asia, and elsewhere. See also basic English ; bbc english ; middle english ; modern english ; nuclear English ; old english ; standard english...
vocabulary Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar (2 ed.)
...how many words there are in the English language, partly because the notion of word is difficult to define, and partly because of problematic issues such as whether to include obsolete or dialect words, slang, words in recognized varieties of English (e.g. Indian English, New Zealand English), and so on. A typical desk dictionary may define about 100,000 vocabulary items, while the Oxford English Dictionary lists more than 600,000. As for how many words an individual English-speaking adult knows or uses, estimates vary greatly. Figures published in 1940...
yous Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
..., youse are regional and dialectal forms of you (plural). In Britain they are associated especially with the speech of Glasgow and Liverpool, and they occur in American, Australian, and New Zealand literature reproducing non-standard speech: It’s the least I can do for youse — E. Jolley, AusE 1985 By time youse all get here, youse big thirsty — New Zealand Ezine , 2004...
viceregal Reference library
Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...viceregal is the usual term for ‘of or relating to a viceroy’, not viceroyal , though the latter had some currency in the 18c. and 19c. In Australia and New Zealand, viceregal is used of a...
yogurt Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
...is the preferred spelling, although yoghurt (with an h ) is also common. It is pronounced yog -uht in BrE, and yoh -guht in AmE and in Australia and New Zealand...
geyser Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
.... The pronunciation in both its main meanings (‘hot spring’ and ‘heating apparatus’) is now gee -zuh , although giy -zuh is also used for the ‘hot spring’ meaning. In America and New Zealand, where the ‘heater’ meaning is not used, the pronunciation is uniformly giy -zuh...
drink-driving Reference library
Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...drink-driving . A term first recorded in 1964 for the legal offence of driving a vehicle with an excess of alcohol in the blood; hence drink-driver . The preferred term in British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand English, it is best written with a hyphen. See drunk driving...
fulcrum Reference library
Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
... fulcra , especially in technical writing, or fulcrums , particularly in its metaphorical meaning ‘a thing that plays a central or essential role’: And, as he was one of the fulcrums of the Maori cultural renaissance of the early 1970s, his place in our history is the same — New Zealand Listener , 2004 . See -um 3...
primer Reference library
Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...primer . The word meaning ‘an elementary or introductory book’ is always pronounced /ˈprʌɪmə/ in Britain, but /ˈprimə/ in America, New Zealand, and sometimes in Australia. It is interesting to note that the OED ( 1909 ) gave priority to the form with a short stem vowel. The form with /ɪ/ is preserved in Britain when the word is used of a size of...
crayfish Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
..., a 16c alteration of an earlier word crevis (or crevisse ), is the usual word in Britain for a small lobster-like freshwater crustacean. Americans call them crawfish , and Australians and New Zealanders often abbreviate the word to cray (as in cray-fishing and cray-pot...
Maori Reference library
Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...continue to say /ˈmaƱri/ , as does everyone outside New Zealand. The spelling Māori and the use of the word as an uninflected plural in order to accord with the conventions of the Maori language are shown in The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature ( 1991 ). It is too early yet to see whether these new conventions will prevail. Examples from this book: The 1980s…ended in a sesquicentennial year full of reminders, for most Māori and many Pākehā, of longstanding injustices still to be remedied —T. Sturm; There has been a written form of Māori...
cataphoric (adjective) Reference library
Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...cataphoric (adjective) . First (19c.) used of the action of an electric current, it is now (since the 1970s) used by grammarians of a reference to a succeeding word or group of words. In the sentence After his discovery of New Zealand, Captain Cook went on to discover several Pacific islands, his refers forward to Captain Cook , i.e. is cataphoric. There are numerous more complicated types of grammatical cataphora. Cf. anaphora 2...
fulcrum Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
..., particularly in technical or scientific writing, but fulcrums in its metaphorical meaning of ‘a thing that plays a central or essential role’: And, as he was one of the fulcrums of the Maori cultural renaissance of the early 1970s, his place in our history is the same — New Zealand Listener , 2004...
lend Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
.... 1 see loan . Use of lend for borrow ( Can I lend your pen? ) occurs in some British dialects but is non-standard. 2 Use of lend as a noun occurs in British dialect use and colloquially in New Zealand, but is non-standard: Could you give me the lend of a bob? — Frank Sargeson , NewZE 1946 Just ringing this feller to ask if I could have a lend of his gun — J. Howker , BrE 1985...
Maori Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
...is pronounced as two syllables ( mow -ri ) and has the plural form Maoris in general usage, although Maoris themselves have been urging non-Maoris in New Zealand and elsewhere to use their own pronunciation of the name with three syllables ( mah -aw-ri ) and to adopt their plural form Maori , the same as the singular. The plural form is more likely to succeed than the pronunciation, since the two-syllable form is more natural to most speakers of...
crape Reference library
Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
..., crêpe . The first is used for a band of black silk or ornamental silk worn as a sign of mourning, and the second, written with the accent and in roman, for other gauzelike fabrics having a wrinkled surface. There are some other special distinctions: ( a ) crape fern , a New Zealand fern; crape hair , artificial hair used in stage make-up; but ( b ) crêpe de Chine, crêpe paper (thin crinkled paper), and crêpe Suzette (dessert...
cinema Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
.... Today, in BrE one can still say that one is going to the cinema to see a film ; in AmE one goes to the movies or to a theater to see a movie . In Australia and New Zealand, one goes to the pictures or a picture theatre to see a film . However, movie is spreading fast into BrE and other varieties, and will undoubtedly take over in the end ( In many ways this movie heralded a new dawn in gritty British film-making — Radio Times , 1998 ). Motion pictures , or the motion-picture industry , is used of the business world of film-making in all...
finalize Quick reference
Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
..., as a synonym of complete or finish , came into use in the 1920s in Australia and New Zealand, then in the US and, in the 1930s, in Britain. It was widely denounced by usage pundits such as Partridge and Gowers as an unnecessary addition; but it often has a stronger sense of effective conclusion than is conveyed by complete or finish : Arrangements have also been finalized for the establishment of a ranching scheme at Jaldesa — Inside Kenya Today , 1971 The two companies now have 120 days to finalize an implementation agreement under the terms of...
