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- What does wipe your chin and walk away mean?
Sean Parker: "And they want you to say 'thank you' while you, excuse me, wipe your chin and walk away " I never was quite able to figure this one out , so what exactly does wipe your chin and walk away refers to?
- pronunciation - Why is Sean pronounced Shawn? - English Language . . .
Sean (written "Seán" or "Séan" in Irish) is a Hibernization of the English name "John"; that is, it's a transliteration of "John" into a form which can be pronounced in Irish and written with the Irish alphabet (which nowadays is simply a version of the Roman alphabet)
- Why do we pronounce Dean as diːn but Sean as ʃɒn ?
18 Sean is an Irish name, and so follows a completely different set of rules Siobhan is another Irish name with a very non-English pronunciation
- Difference between sleeping with Sean Parker and sleeping on Sean . . .
1 Sleep on is a play of words here You didn't know Sean Parker when you saw him -- you must have been sleeping all this while (you were unaware of developments related to Sean Parker)
- Term for intentionally using a word in a context inconsistent with its . . .
Is there a term that describes an instance where someone intentionally uses a word in a context inconsistent with the word’s literal definition? I spent a long time trying to phrase it correctly
- pronunciation - Do “here” and “hear” have the same phonetic . . .
I'm surprised by Sean's statement of Kentuckians pronouncing "here" as two syllables but "hear" as one, because, as I say, the only dialect I've ever heard had it the other way around But I've never lived in the South, only passed through now and then, so maybe there are multiple, mutually-confusing dialects down there :-)
- epithet requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
This is a duplicate question but has still not been answered for me I'm so close to the exact word — I know there is one out there — but the closest word I can find is a hypocrite: A person who c
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Ok, not really But I was wondering what the appropriate word is for that; "Genocide" applies to murdering all people of a certain race, while "Omnicide" means ending all life What is the correct
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