This time, "nighs" meets with its natural word-mate, "sighs".
Locke called this latter kind of experience, for which there is no natural word in English, "reflection".
And I have to say, I'm a little bit queasy at the idea that somehow natural words are morally superior to technological one.
Print dictionaries have never had sufficient page-room to show enough real, live, useful examples to create an optimal and natural word-learning experience.
Cicero's verse is technically important; he refined the hexameter, using words of two or three syllables at the end of a line, so that the natural word accent would coincide with the beat of the metre, and applying rhetorical devices to poetry; he is one of those who made possible the achievement of Virgil.
Fowler defines "genteelism" as "the substituting, for the ordinary natural word that first suggests itself to the mind, of a synonym that is thought to be less soiled by the lips of the common herd, less familiar, less plebian, less vulgar, less improper, less apt to come unhandsomely betwixt the wind & our nobility".
There was a great 19th-century tradition of clergymen scientists who studied the natural word and especially the fossil record for evidence of the divine plan, and many of them embraced Darwin's discoveries or at least the possibility that the biblical account might be metaphorical.
The decisive advantage of the applied experimental method (which is described in detail in the "Method" section) is that it allows us to gain insights into the perception of segmental intonation by means of a simple and natural word-identification task, i.e. without forcing the listeners into any laboratory exercises or giving them any metalinguistic or explicitly pitch-related instructions.
"I was amazed how many children hadn't been exposed to the natural word of plants and wildlife," she said.
That despite all we know and how much we've advanced, it pales in comparison to what exists in the natural word.
