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bigbadmouse
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*Lest* I forget
well done for using it, and I up-voted you for that. In English English I've only heard it used ceremoniously or for comedy effect such as inflecting irony.
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'Didn't happen' or 'haven't happened' before
I agree however note that "officials took the responsibility of the accident" should actually be "officials took responsibility for the accident"
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Adverbs for the verb "overlap"
You're right to use his name first. Perhaps "Professor A's interest in B mirrors my own"
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Badly exists but not Goodly why?
you're probably right however I chose to answer his exact question as its not in my opinion correct to second-guess someone's possible meaning and then answer that. I don't recall seeing old text with "badly" in it, so possibly they never co-existed in the way that he is thinking of . As far as I know, the archaic form of bad is "ill" as in "ill-informed", "ill-done" more as an analogue to "well-"
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What is the meaning of "I meet a tiger of escaping"?
i can't find that phrase anywhere on Google. If we can get context, perhaps this can be answered.
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'have something of a name'
Following @livrecache above - i think this is archaic in that it refers to "name" in the sense of "reputation". As he/she says there is a phrase "making a name for yourself", meaning becoming well-known and with the implication of it being a favourable reputation. I therefore suspect that "having something of a name" means "mildly famous/well-respected for doing <whatever>"
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Difference between "lady" and "woman"?
In Engiish english, i think "woman" wounds quite rude when communicating with someone. If I'm with my kids and we are paying in a shop, I always say that "we have to pay the lady before you can open it".
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Differences between "We climbed high so that we might get a better view" and "We climbed high that we might get a better view"?
I agree about the archaism of the latter. I think that "that" makes the former sound more archaic, not more formal.
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