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What's a 'camelot'? How did it come about?

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Cherry
Student • 1 years ago

Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur. Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world. The stories locate it somewhere in Great Britain and sometimes associate it with real cities, though more usually its precise location is not revealed.

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What is the origin and the meaning of 'blizzard'?

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Cherry
Student • 1 years ago

The definition of a blizzard is an intense snowstorm, or a heavy amount of something. An example of a blizzard is a snowstorm that traps people in their houses for days.

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What is the etymology of 'main' to refer to 'sea or ocean'?

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Abbygail
Student • 1 years ago

MAIN - the open ocean; high sea: the bounding main

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What is meant by 'batchy'?

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Abbygail
Student • 1 years ago

BATCHY - to lose your cool; mad, merely silly; etymology extremely doubtful; to be made in low quantities with fine attention to detail, flavor, and source of ingredients and/or materials.

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What is the difference between 'aisle' and 'isle'?

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Abbygail
Student • 1 years ago

AISLE - refers to passageway between rows (typically in a church). The name derives from the French for ''wing,'' because in Romanesque architecture the aisles flanked only the nave and were often covered by roofs of lower height, thus forming wings. ISLE - an island; often used as part of an island's name, or in literary English. An isle refers to a small island or peninsula; mass of land.

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Why is Greece called Hellas?

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Abbygail
Student • 1 years ago

'HELLAS' means Greece in Hellenika (Greek language). It turns out that both 'Greece' and 'Hellas' have Greek roots, but 'Greece' was adopted by the Romans (as the Latin word 'Graecus'), and later adopted into English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED says Aristotle uses 'Graiko' as the name for the first inhabitants of the region.

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Is 'arrogant' a masculine word?

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Rubie
Student • 1 years ago

ARROGANT does not directly referred to as a masculine word. Arrogant simply means exposing / exaggerating one's worth or importance.

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What is being referred to by the term 'golden parachute'?

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Abbygail
Student • 1 years ago

GOLDEN PARACHUTE - an agreement between a company and an employee (usually an upper executive) specifying that the employee will receive certain significant benefits if employment is terminated. These may include severance pay, cash bonuses, stock options, or other benefits. Most definitions specify the employment termination is as a result of a merge or takeover.

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Are the terms 'exorcism' and 'sorcery' etymologically related? Please explain.

How do syllables defined, is it phonetically or etymologically?

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Abbygail
Student • 1 years ago

Phonetically syllables ''are usually described as consisting of a center which has little or no obstruction to airflow and which sounds comparatively loud.

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