The word "ling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as either a noun or a verb. Noun: She caught a ling from the ocean. Verb: She was ling fishing off the coast.
It explained how the problem was that the giant, well-equipped boat in question had used up its cod quota for the year and was now fishing for other less desirable species like ling and monkfish in a desperate attempt to earn enough money to keep operating.
LAST March, Alexandra Wallace, a blonde Californian who was attending the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), was so annoyed by "these hordes of Asian people" filling up her campus and talking on their cellphones in the library that she made a YouTube video mocking them: "Aah, ching chong ling long ting tong".
He seems to have held that every denoting expression is ambiguous in that it denotes both its denotation and itself (Galen, On ling. soph. 4; Aulus Gellius 11.12.1).
There is much debate about whether Miss Ling and Miss Lee strayed into North Korean territory, or were nabbed on the Chinese side.
Soldiers sometimes approach Western or South Korean visitors peering into North Korea, not to arrest them, but to beg them for any foreign currency they might have in their pockets.Had the reporters been nabbed from the Chinese side, you might expect China to kick up a huge fuss, particularly since Miss Ling is ethnic Chinese.
These particles are a by-product of nuclear fission, and the six reactors at Daya Bay and nearby Ling Ao turn them out in prodigious quantities.
Fury had shrieked 'No ling- ering!
Like many of her neighbours, Fang Yue-ling, a farmer, was confident such high-profile promises would presage more assistance.In this section The burning bush Changing the guard in Kabul?
Asians and others responded with YouTube counterattacks; "ching-chong-ling-long" became a ringtone; UCLA declared itself outraged; and Ms Wallace apologised, then left the university.A year on, and the incident has spawned its own genre of local comedy, but nobody seems the least bit bothered by it anymore.
Annie Kelly and Mei-Ling McNamara report on the estimated 3,000 Vietnamese children in forced labour in the UK.
In February Li Keming, the prime minister's brother, was removed from a senior position in the state tobacco monopoly and assigned to another job, a move cheered by those who worried about conflicting interests between the two Lis.Late last year the monopoly's director, Ling Chengxing, criticised recent moves to regulate smoking as "absolutist" and "expansionist".
