speaking with tongue

  • 21speak with forked tongue — speak with (a) forked tongue to make false promises or to speak in a way which is not honest. The minister is speaking with a forked tongue, promising support he will never deliver …

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  • 22speak with forked tongue —    to dissimulate    Serpents want to have a word with animal rights enthusiasts about this usage, without which writers of screenplays for Westerns would have had to dream up another cliché:     Owners and players act as if there were no fans,… …

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  • 23English-speaking Quebecer — Ethnic group group=English speaking Quebecer|100px] caption = James McGill · Sir John Abbott · Dr. Wilder Penfield · Doug Harvey · Oscar Peterson ·Brian Mulroney · The Arcade Fire poptime= Mother tongue: 575,555 (7.7%) [… …

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  • 24Swedish-speaking Finns — More than 17,000 Swedish Finns live in officially monolingual Finnish municipalities, and are thus not represented on the map.Swedish speaking Finns (often called Finland Swedes, Finnish Swedes, Fennoswedes or Swedish Finns, see below) (Swedish:… …

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  • 25Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine — is a manually operated speech synthesizer that began development in 1769, by Austro Hungarian author and inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen. It was in this same year that he completed his far more infamous contribution to history: The Turk, a chess… …

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  • 26Acid Tongue — Infobox Album Name = Acid Tongue Type = studio Artist = Jenny Lewis Released = September 23, 2008 Recorded = January 2008 Sound City Studios, Van Nuys Genre = Indie Alternative country Length = 47:24 Label = Warner Bros. Records Producer = Jenny… …

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  • 27Languages with official status in India — The official language of the Indian Union is Hindi with English as an additional language for official work;[1] states in India can legislate their own official languages.[1] Neither the Constitution of India, nor any Indian law defines any… …

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  • 28Municipalities with language facilities — The municipalities with language facilities in Belgium, shaded darker. All of the German area has language facilities. The municipalities with language facilities, occasionally called municipalities with linguistic facilities or shortly… …

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  • 29German-speaking Europe — The German language (both as an official language and as a minority language) is spoken in a number of countries and territories in West and Central Europe ( de. Deutscher Sprachraum ). To cover this speech area they are often referred to as the… …

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  • 30List of English words with disputed usage — Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English. While in some circles the usages below may make the speaker… …

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