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What ever happened to fink? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The noun form fink is way at the bottom, followed closely by stinker, and surprisingly, motherfucker If we focus our attention on the last three terms, and add the verb "is", i e is a fink, Google Ngram should avoid those instances where the author's name, A Fink, is cited The expression “is a stinker” seems to have peaked in the 1950s
accent - Is the pronunciation of th as in think f specific to a . . . @mis-n-salem: The term "fronting" refers to the fact that the sound f is pronounced further in the mouth than the sound θ (we pronounce f with the lips against the teeth, while θ is with the tongue against the teeth)
What does the word phink in the pink panther cartoon mean? Elisha Kane, "The Jargon of the Underworld," in Dialect Notes, volume 5, part 10 (1927) reports a different meaning (and derivation) of fink that was "in current use at the time of compilation [of the glossary] at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1927)": fink, n Originally a Pinkerton detective, now extended to mean any detective or a spying
Frenchs ne explétif in English? Fink contends that the French ne and the English but are each means of expressing an attitude of ambivalence toward the meaningful content of the sentence uttered (an attitude coloring the position of the subject of enunciation) without, for all that, disrupting or repudiating ♦ the literal meaning of the sentence per se as the sense
What is the word meaning going on and on for miles and miles? @BrianJ Fink "Extending as it went" is non-idiomatic and semantically ambiguous The most likely interpretation of that phrase would be that the road actually becomes longer as one is travelling along it, a la the train tracks at the end of the Wallace and Gromit short "The Wrong Trousers " (A fun image, but probably not what you meant )
Can nighttime be used instead of night-time? The NGram is very persuasive for the use of "at nighttime" but I agree with Brian Fink that hyphenation is dying in favor of two-word usage (see what I did there?) and I think it's a huge mistake Hyphens can direct and associate the meaning of a phrase which is totally lost when two words are used
meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The multitude of unflattering terms available to describe an informer whose motives are less honorable than a modern-day whistleblower's gives writers and speakers little reason to go against the grain and use whistleblower in its original negative sense of "fink, snitch, squealer, or stool pigeon "
prepositions - Receive a prize in on for a contest - English Language . . . Joey was awarded first prize for his poem "Rat Fink" in the school literary competition Award (v ) To give money or a prize following an official decision Carlos was awarded first prize in the essay competition Cambridge To grant as merited or due: Awarded prizes to the winners AHD