Dactyl, metrical foot consisting of one long (classical verse) or stressed (English verse) syllable followed by two short, or unstressed, syllables.
If we had sex, it wouldn't be legal, because we're already practically conjoined twins!" Cameron Diaz - her beaming, hyperactive face almost entirely devoid of ordinary human emotion - plays Amanda, a movie executive who has come to England on a cute "house swap" holiday with a stressed English journalist called Iris (Kate Winslet).
This official notice stressed the English language examinations should be taken for employees who work in government or government-related working units.
A great deal of the literature on this topic stresses that English language proficiency is vital to the success of international students in American higher education because both the academic and social adjustment of international students require a high level of English language skills (Andrade 2006; Yeh and Inose 2003; Sawir 2005).
The curriculum has been revised, stressing core subjects (English, science, mathematics), school facilities and the training of teachers have been improved, clear achievement goals have been set and a rigorous province-wide testing programme for grades three (aged 7-8), six (10-11), nine 13-144) and twelve (16-17) has been established to ensure they are met.It is all paying off.
Both were bought as stand-alone items at auction, Mr. English said, stressing that their use did not involve the destruction of an Enigma machine or anything that came from a museum.
This new English school, stressing conscientious scholarship, realism, honesty, social awareness, and general disdain for mere swash and buckle, produced work that completely eclipsed the rusty tradition of Marryat and George Alfred Henty.
Those who identified as Cornish and English stressed the primacy of their Cornishness and a capacity to distance themselves from their Englishness.
An exception is the spondee, which consists of two stressed syllables; in English verse, this is usually two monosyllables, such as the phrase "He who".
In his later years he both made more of his Irishness himself, and came to be seen by commentators as more characteristically Irish, but I continue to stress how superbly English and suburban his early novels are.
