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The study of word meanings promises important insights into the nature of the human mind by revealing what people find to be most cognitively significant in their experience. Jean aitchison is a professor of language and communication in the faculty of english language and literature at the university of oxford and a fellow of worcester college, oxford. In contrast, we mih fid h h ight find that the f ifuzzy meaning adh dherents were poets and mystics. Were in an ifyoucannotlickthemjoin age, a slovenliness provides its own excuse age, where usage overnight condones misusage. It discusses the structure and content of the human word store or mental.
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