"That depends on the definition of 'of' " and other ling questions
- Give the definition of the word "of" as it is used in the following context, and provide one other example in which the word "of" is used in the same way: "A predatory bird is known as a bird of prey."
- If you’d like to go by two letters, rather than a first name, it helps a lot for one of those letters to be a "J". Why is this?
- Many people complain about the word "literally" being used to add emphasis to figurative phrases. How is this usage different from the use of the word "veritable" to stress the aptness of a metaphor? Why don't people complain about "veritable"?
- When you think about it, doesn't the word "frosting" imply a beautiful image? Sugar coats these flakes of corn, like frost on a blade of grass.
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By people who go by two letters, I'm referring to those like athletes J. T. Snow, O. J. Simpson, J. R. Rider, B. J. Armstrong, and J. J. Stokes and television characters CJ from West Wing and DJ from Full House. It seems particularly surprisingly that J is so common both as the first letter and as the second letter in these names of two initials.
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