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- Bury vs. Berry The Proper Pronunciation Edition
In America growing up in the Midwest, I've always heard people pronounce the word "bury" as if it were pronounced sounding the same as the word "berry" Ever since I've noticed this many years ba
- Entry of bury ones head in the sand into English
1 How did the phrase "bury one's head in the sand" meaning "to ignore a bad situation hoping it will disappear" (coming from the misbelief that ostriches do this to hide from predators) end up being part of English? At what time did the idiom and perhaps stereotype enter general knowledge among English speakers?
- adjectives - Is there a word that means deliberately ignorant . . .
This is a cognitive bias tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment, and are often studied in psychology and behavioral economics When a person "deliberately" ignores negative information it is called an optimism bias or the ostrich effect When a person "deliberately" ignores positive information it is called
- etymology - What is the origin of the quote, “You can satisfy some of . . .
The actual quote is: You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time It is is most often attributed to Abraham Lincoln, but this is disputed: This is probably the most famous of apparently apocryphal remarks attributed to Lincoln Despite being cited variously as from an 1856 speech, or a September
- legalese - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
1 The idiom, to bury oneself in something, is recognized by the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs Definition: Figurative: to become very busy with something Example: She stopped taking phone calls and buried herself in her work This idiom is also recognized by: Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Thesaurus
- What is the name of the tactic that politicians use to bury people with . . .
the use of "hook" is totally and completely wrong here it has absolutely no connection to what you're saying, regarding bloated or long-winded or off-topic argumentative technique
- Is there a word for burying ones head in the sand?
While ostriches don't actually bury their heads, it is an English idiom
- Why does the pronunciation of U vary in English?
words ending in "uth": ruth and truth (and derived words) Irregularly short U: stŭdy, pŭnish, sŭburb, bŭnion, dŭcat (for many speakers) pumice (for some speakers) cumin ugly snugly smugly (compare bugle) pŭblish, pŭblic, kind of (there are no words with long u before bl) Extremely irregular pronunciation of u: busy = "bizzy", bury = "berry"
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