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" MY LEGAL NAME is Alexander Perchov. But all of my many friends dub me Alex, because that is a more flaccid-to-utter version of my legal name. Mother dubs me Alexi-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her. If you want to know why I am always... "
Everything Is Illuminated - Page 3
by Jonathan Safran Foer - 2013 - 288 pages
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Weird English

Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 358 pages
...this popular Hindi film song.13 Oh-ho-ho. Hazukashii! I'm so old. They call me granny at the school!14 Mother dubs me Alexi-stop-spleening-me!, because I...currency, and performing so many things that can spleen a mother.15 Many of the above writers use vernaculars with strength and confidence, demonstrating strategic...
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Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language

Adele E. Goldberg - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 300 pages
...must be learned on the basis of generalizing over particular examples. Conventionality and Redundancy My legal name is Alexander Perchov. But all of my...Alexi-stopspleening-me!, because I am always spleening her... because I am always elsewhere with friends, and disseminating so much currency, and performing so many...
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