Can mongrel be used to refer to people? - English Language Usage . . . I regard myself as a mongrel as an assimilation of mixed race My Serbian wife and her family, however, despite the communist influence consider themselves as pure Serbian, despite the fact that the family come from Croatia and Bosnia Mongrel is a proud badge to wear and it means we can celebrate all feasts, anywhere
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange I'll go with mongrel cat alley cat: a homeless, mongrel cat Your Dictionary Thomas, a 10-year-old moggie (a British nickname for a housecat or mongrel cat), claims to be Britain's fattest cat at 28 pounds Books Google
What makes the spelling of psychedelic a mongrel spelling? This mongrel spelling of the word 'psychedelic' was loathed by American ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, but championed by Timothy Leary, who thought it sounded better The reference Wiki cites for this statement explains that Schultes was objecting to the spelling, not the Greek derivation:
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Rule for the pronunciation of the letter O as ʌ vs. ɒ I don't know enough to attempt a proper answer, but my sneaking suspicion is "yes, there are a lot of rules, with a lot of exceptions, which in turn create further rules and exceptions, to the point that it would be less complex to simply look up and memorize the pronunciation of each word; individually, in a dictionary as you encounter them or find a need for them"
Origin of dog (ging) it? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Early more-or-less literal meanings of 'dog it' The earliest instance of "dogging it" that an Elephind newspaper database search finds carries the literal sense "set a dog on it," as we learn an account of monetary losses that the writer blames on poor fencing between a farm owned by a man who raised cows, pigs, and other animals, and the writer's corn farm, in "Fences," in the [Ohio County