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Eric Partridge, in his Useage and Abusage writes, 'As to cliches, I daresay we are all in agreement.
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A stickler for the rules of grammar, Mrs. Walker cringes when she encounters any abusage by the students in her freshman English class.
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This abusage is now so widespread that, in 2015, Instagram banned search results for photographs tagged with an aubergine emoji, fearing it could be used as a signifier of nudity.
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Since West's painting, several reproductions have been made, mostly line etchings and engravings; these are widely exhibited. The most prominent of these was made in 1781 by John Hall (Wivenhoe 1739 – London 1797), which can be found at the Wordsworth House, Cumbria. Versions of West's painting were often reproduced on walls throughout Belfast, although these reproductions are becoming increasingly rare as the walls give way to urban development.Rex Cathcart, Ireland and King Billy: Triumphalism Usage and Abusage.
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A fair amount of confusion has surrounded the issue of the relationship between verbal irony and sarcasm. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage states: > Sarcasm does not necessarily involve irony and irony has often no touch of > sarcasm. This suggests that the two concepts are linked but may be considered separately. The Oxford English Dictionary's entry for sarcasm does not mention irony, but the irony entry includes: The Encyclopædia Britannica has "Non- literary irony is often called sarcasm"; while the Webster's Dictionary entry is: Partridge in Usage and Abusage would separate the two forms of speech completely: > Irony must not be confused with sarcasm, which is direct: sarcasm means > precisely what it says, but in a sharp, caustic, ... manner.
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Some nouns have identical singular and plural (zero inflection). Many of these are the names of animals: :bison :buffalo :carp :cod :deer :fish :kakapo (and other Māori- derived words) :moose :neat :pike :salmon :sheep :shrimp :squid :trout As a general rule, game or other animals are often referred to in the singular for the plural in a sporting context: "He shot six brace of pheasant", "Carruthers bagged a dozen tiger last year", whereas in another context such as zoology or tourism the regular plural would be used. Eric Partridge refers to these sporting terms as "snob plurals" and conjectures that they may have developed by analogy with the common English irregular plural animal words "deer", "sheep" and "trout".Partridge, Eric, Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English, revised by Janet Whitcut (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1997), pp. 238–39.
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