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oxford_english
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[ noun ] (linguistics) the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious
Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)At_once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took_to_be Spanish , but - the driver 's white teeth flashing at me , the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair , beyond his gesticulating bottle - it could have been the purest Oxford_English I was half hearing ; I would n't have known the difference . Related terms |
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