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Stein ruptures and undoes the security and predictability of the pattern, its "which when where" (PP: 567), by inserting into the narrative flow apparent illogicalities, such as the slightly chit-chatty "wishes" and "fishes" that have uncertain grammatical status and can function both as verbs and nouns.
Grouped into chapters on where words come from and how they've changed, pronunciation and spelling, usage, meanings, peculiarities, illogicalities, and language play, the book will appeal to any reader with a general interest in the English language.
In one of the play's most glaring illogicalities, Lussurioso is freed by the nobles (3.
 
 
 
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