In a tonal language, changing a word's pitch changes its meaning; for example, the Mandarin word "ma" can mean mother, reproach, horse, or hemp depending on the pitch the speaker uses.
Those silent s's are a perfect example of the spoken language changing while the written remains the same.
One reader noted the way in which the ending was worked for, Vernon's language changing after his imprisonment, as he seemed to accept rather than rail against his fate.
Passengers are removed from an aircraft for benign reasons such as asking for a beverage, a child harness, speaking a foreign language, changing orupgrading seats, taking pictures, making videos, or questioning a long delay.
Now, with television language changing quickly to reflect the rude realities of life, this thoughtful, provocative drama examines how racial slurs function in society, how insidiously they creep into common use.
There are, of course, issues around Blyton's attitude to race and class; her publisher recently adapted her language, changing very "of their time" phrases such as "dirty tinker" to "traveller".
Judith Becker's "Deep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing" (2004) is for anyone who has ever tuned into a single chord or repeated rhythm, started "playing it" internally, found his perception and body language changing, and then wondered, 15 minutes later — after a gap in linear consciousness — whether he might have temporarily become the music itself.
Every great city has a grouse in its heart, and he knew what Mumbai's was: the grouse of the native against the outsiders who were taking away his jobs, building great homes he could not afford, diminishing his language, changing the menu of his restaurants and replacing his cinema with another kind of cinema.
A lot of it is just language changing.
Whilst some can see their language changing, do they, themselves?
