Sentence examples for corruption of the word from inspiring English sources
Mr. Miller said he thought the the spelling was a corruption of the word heart.
Many believe that the word holly derives from this belief and is a corruption of the word holy.
The name "Kobani" may be a corruption of the word "company", although in Arabic the town is called Ayn al-Arab or "the spring of the Arabs".
Early explorers gave the area the name Acadia (French: Acadie), probably a corruption of the word used by the native Mi'kmaq.
Each good pass of the bull is enthusiastically acknowledged by the crowd with a rhythmically chanted ¡Olé! (which is said to be a corruption of the word Allah, a holdover from the Moorish roots of bullfighting).
The use of "aught" to mean "nothing," "zero," or "cipher" is a nineteenth-century corruption of the word "naught," which actually does mean nothing, and which, as in the phrase "all for naught," is still in current usage.
A conspicuous exception is Albireo in Cygnus, possibly a corruption of the words ab ireo in the first Latin edition of the Almagest in 1515.
The word cravate is a corruption of the French word for "Croatian".
The word cravate is a corruption of the French word for "Croatian". The term came to be applied in England and France to any kind of a neckerchief worn by a man.
The town's name derives from a corruption of the Celtic word bol and the Old English word pool meaning a place near a pool or creek.
The word "tornado" has a foreign ring to it – though as the Oxford English Dictionary explains, it is probably a corruption of the Spanish word for thunder, "tronada".
