As a result, the Constantinople Greek dialect has many features found in peripheral varieties of Greek, maintenance of certain archaisms lost in most dialects, many borrowings from the other languages ...
In addition, Crace authenticates his history by sprinkling his narrative with sparkling mica-like archaisms and quaint dialectal variations – ruddocks and dunnocks pick at grain, damsons are scrumped, ...
IN 1931 when the Royal Dutch Academy of Science and the leading medical authorities in Holland were considering how best to celebrate the tercentenary of the birth of Leeuwenhoek in 1632, it was ...