"linguistic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the fable, a committee investigates linguistic corruption in "the Brett language," wishing to eradicate four particular offensive words.
- Rarely has a linguistic corruption stunk so excrementally of willful hayseediness.
- This infuriates the specialists, who see it not merely as a form of linguistic corruption but also as highway robbery from their vocabulary.
- The relics were placed in the suburban church of Santa Passera (a linguistic corruption of "Abbas Cyrus") on the Via Portuense.
- The game later also became known as "blind man's bluff"; it is possible that this name is a linguistic corruption.
- There was originally a Roman villa located here, and the German suffix, "weiler", is a linguistic corruption of the Latin term "villa".
- Historically, the name "Arcot" is said to be derived from a linguistic corruption of the original Tamil word "Aaru Kaadu", meaning "Six Forests".
- "Nuthatch" is a linguistic corruption of "nuthack", referring to the bird's habit of wedging nuts into cracks in tree bark and hacking at them until they break open.
- However, by linguistic corruption, the name of the martyr Ambor (Nabor) became confused with that of the more famous bishop Saint Ambrose (San Ambrosio).
- A linguistic corruption of ikou (to rest).
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