Name index

1 Etymological materials in this chapter are from: Harper D. Online Etymology Dictionary / Douglas Harper [Електронний ресурс]. - http://www.etymonline.com/ - © November 2001.

2 From: Hornby A.S. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary / Albert Sidney Hornby. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

3 This and the examples below in this chapter are from: British National Corpus [електронний ресурс]. - http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/ and Corpus of Contemporary American English [електронний ресурс]. - http://www.americancorpus.org/

4 These and further illustrations in this chapter are from: Wain, J. The Life Guard / John Wain. – NY:Viking, 1972. – 172 P.

5 “Two-Ton Tessie from Tennessee” was a signature song of Teresa “Tessie” O'Shea (13 March 1913 – 21 April 1995), a Welsh entertainer and actress, who was quite a large woman herself.

6 Lawrence H.D. Women in Love. – London: Penguin Books, 1996. – p.20.

7 The examples retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=1&search=-ocracy&fulltext=Search&ns0=1 22:21, 10 February 2010.

8 L. Carroll. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).

9 http://www.stpaulsmensclub.org/

10 "Hierarchy shows a similar, though more pronounced, deterioration. Originally applied to an order or a host of angels from the fourteenth century, it has steadily moved down the scale of being, referring to 'a collective body of ecclesiastical rulers' from c. 1619, from whence the similar secular sense develops c.1643 (in Milton's tract on divorce). . . . Today one frequently hears of 'the party hierarchy,' 'business hierarchies,' and the like, denoting only the top of the hierarchy, not the whole order, and conveying the same nuances of hostility and envy implied in elite."

(Geoffrey Hughes, Words in Time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary, Basil Blackwell, 1988) from http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/pejorterm.htm

11 Syntagmatic, as opposed to the paradigmatic (or vertical) relations.

12 It is quite possible, in fact, to describe a woman as handsome. However, this implies that she is not beautiful at all in the traditional sense of female beauty, but rather that she is mature in age, has large features and a certain strength of character. Similarly, a man could be described as beautiful, but this would usually imply that he had feminine features. Calling a man pretty is most often done perjoratively to suggest effeminacy. (from http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/easy/colloc.htm)

13 Of mice and men is in fact a double quotation, as it was also used by John Steinbeck as the title of a novel.

14 Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows / Joan K. Rowling. – Bloomsbery, 1997. – 607 p.

15 Sentences from: Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows / Joan K. Rowling. – Bloomsbery, 1997. – 607 p.

16 Sentences from: Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows / Joan K. Rowling. – Bloomsbery, 1997. – 607 p.

17 Sentences from: Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows / Joan K. Rowling. – Bloomsbery, 1997. – 607 p.

18 Sentences from: Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows / Joan K. Rowling. – Bloomsbery, 1997. – 607 p.

19 Sentences from: Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows / Joan K. Rowling. – Bloomsbery, 1997. – 607 p.

20 Sentences from: Rowling J.K. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows / Joan K. Rowling. – Bloomsbery, 1997. – 607 p.