[Corpora-List] "Tajweed" in English dictionaries and corpora

[Trevor Jenkins]

On 5 Mar 2013, at 18:08, Trevor Jenkins <trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com> wrote:

> ... The British author, TV and radio presenter Melvyn Bragg (aka the Labour supporting Lord Baron Bragg of Wigton) argued that in that very point in the TV programmes of his "Adventure of English" that Webster created his first dictionary was conceived as a political act to rest control of English from the English. ...

That don't make much sense do it. What comes of spending my working day translating into a signed language.

Putting my English head back on what I intended to say (or at least closer to what I intended):

>> ... The British author, TV and radio presenter Melvyn Bragg (aka the Labour supporting member of the House of Lords, Baron Bragg of Wigton) argued that very point in the TV programmes of his "Adventure of English" [series by claiming] that Webster conceived his first dictionary as a [deliberate] political act to rest control of English from the English. …

Better? I hope so.

Regards, Trevor.

<>< Re: deemed!


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