(1) One question begins to form above the alarums and excursions of debate as we pause for a breather one year ahead of the independence vote: can England and Scotland be much more different after independence that we are at present?
(2) I flinch if I hear a jay calling, or a crow’s rolling, angry alarum.
Archaism
Definition:
(a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
(a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simon Jenkins makes many excellent points supporting the removal of the “fiscal archaism” that is non-dom status ( Don’t stop at non-doms – stamp out all the tax tricks , 9 April).
(2) It is easy to accuse Clegg of mishandling the Rennard affair but he is at the mercy of a chaotic "open market" for vexatious litigation and of an upper chamber of Byzantine archaism desperately in need of reform.
(3) Defence is an area where governments are notoriously beholden to archaism and special interests – and where oppositions have a duty of challenge.
(4) Non-dom status is to fiscal policy what leeches once were to medicine, a lingering archaism embedded in professional custom and practice, and thus hard to change.
(5) The extraction of organs causes symbolic and cultural given to appear, leading to the elaboration of fantasies isclosure of archaisms and its fears.
(6) Playing the drunken hedonist deadbeat dad to Andy Samberg's uptight square son, Sandler uses a rasping voice that's like sandpaper on the eardrums, especially given his repetition of the unmissed noughties archaism "Whaaaaazzzzuuuuppp???"
(7) Stripped of the "British" comfort blanket, the archaism of England's power structure and its monstrous north-south imbalance would become visible and intolerable.
(8) Futurism held in equal contempt symbolism, classicism, moralism, parliamentarianism, feminism, "Don Juanism", individualism, archaism, egoism, pessimism, "and every kind of materialistic self-serving cowardice".
(9) And I'd love to think that this type of behaviour was a generational thing, shortly to be flushed out, a perplexing archaism, like smoking in cinemas .
(10) A "lively public radio show about words, language, and how we use them" is how this show is described, and its hosts – Martha Barnette , an author, and Grant Barrett , a lexicographer – brilliantly cover everything to do with language: slang, colloquialisms, grammar, word debates, style and usage, dialects and even archaisms.