DEVIANT
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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DEVIANT. In
LINGUISTICS, a unit of language is deviant if it does not conform to rules formulated in terms of data or native-speaker intuitions. A deviant unit is
ill-formed and is generally marked by a preceding asterisk (*
Dan does not be happy). A form may be deviant in one variety of a language but
well-formed in another:
sellt, the past form of
sell in
SCOTS, as opposed to
sold in
STANDARD ENGLISH. A form can be acceptable to most users of a language but be deviant in a particular analysis because the rules cannot be formulated to include it. Similarly, an unacceptable form can be well-formed because the rules as formulated cannot exclude it. Some linguists consider the term socially loaded, especially in favour of standard usage, and do not use it. Compare
ACCEPTABILITY,
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE,
GRAMMATICALITY,
NON-STANDARD,
STYLE.
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Acropolis Systems Announces Certification on the Newest Sun Microsystems' Enterprise High Availability Cluster
PR Newswire; 12/10/1997; 700+ words
; ...Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Acropolis Systems announced certification on Sun...program: Sun(TM) Enterprise Cluster. Acropolis is the among the first Sun(TM) value...and support the products they sell. Acropolis Systems is one of just a handful of value...
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Acropolis Systems Supports New Oracle Authorized Reseller Program
PR Newswire; 9/15/1997; 700+ words
; Acropolis teams with Oracle to extend cluster technology...ANGELES, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Acropolis Systems, Inc. today announced its participation...Oracle Authorized Reseller program, Acropolis Systems is able to provide its customers...
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On the Acropolis.(Poem)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; On the Acropolis It doesn't seem as though we could die up here, does it? The Acropolis is so old that death on it seems superfluous...statues with our heads! God smiles down at the Acropolis. It's a good church But with the wrong idea...
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Acropolis Technology Group Assists in Recovery of Stolen Laptop
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 7/30/2007; 700+ words
; ...Jim Sammons, IT Management Director of Acropolis Technology Group, +1-618-254...Ill., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Acropolis Technology Group, a St. Louis area...recover a client's stolen laptop. Acropolis Technology Group utilized one of their...
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Acropolis Technology Group Assists in Recovery of Stolen Laptop.
PR Newswire; 7/30/2007; 700+ words
; ...Ill., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Acropolis Technology Group, a St. Louis area...recover a client's stolen laptop. Acropolis Technology Group utilized one of their...unbeknownst to the thief. Once alerted, Acropolis was able to record and then provided...
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HP Announces OEM Agreement With Acropolis for Raid Systems Using HP Autoraid Array Technology; Maker of Turnkey Storage Servers and Disk Arrays for Sun Workstation and Server Environments Becomes First OEM to Announce Products Based on HP AutoRAID Array Technology.
Business Wire; 12/18/1995; 700+ words
; ...18, 1995-- Hewlett-Packard Company and Acropolis Systems Inc. today announced an OEM agreement wherein Acropolis will market new products based on HP AutoRAID array technology. Acropolis is HP's first OEM customer for HP's easy...
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What's to do after the Acropolis? Plenty
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 5/18/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...18-2008 What's to do after the Acropolis? Plenty By TONI SALAMA, CHICAGO TRIBUNE...in life are as moving as ascending the Acropolis of Athens and coming face to face with...from its beauty. Here, too, on the Acropolis is the almost-as-famous Porch of...
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Acropolis Systems, Inc. Announces Acquisition of eManage.com.
Business Wire; 1/22/2001; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001 Acropolis Systems, Inc., a recognized leader...eManage's services together with Acropolis' offerings in the IT infrastructure...acquisition of eManage will further strengthen Acropolis' position in the Internet services marketplace...
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ACROPOLIS PROVES TO BE A TASTY, HERB-FILLED EXPERIENCE
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current); 8/10/2008; 700+ words
; ...My friend Linda and I had lunch at the Acropolis on a recent weekday. The restaurant...another visit. I highly recommend the Acropolis. Donna Gish My friend and I arrived...We were pleasantly surprised that the Acropolis seemed to have a more extensive menu...
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Acropolis a stunning side trip
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 8/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to field hockey. I want to go to the Acropolis. It is Saturday, Day 9 of the Athens...set foot on the ancient marble of the Acropolis, a place so old it makes the Mayan ruins...sometimes called "The Sacred Rock." The Acropolis, which means "High City," is a high...
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acropolis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
acropolis [Gr.,=high point of the city...of various ancient Greek cities. The Acropolis of Athens, a hill c.260 ft (80 m...the theater of Dionysus. Although the Acropolis was laid waste by the Persians in 480...
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"Disturbance of memory on the Acropolis, A"
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
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Yanni
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
...album since 1990: Yanni Live at the Acropolis (1994) Hit songs since 1990: "Keys...to stage a concert at the historic Acropolis in his native Greece. Like the undeniably...culled from the concert, Live at the Acropolis, went on to sell millions of copies...
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Phidias
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Achaea; the Apollo Parnopios on the Acropolis, Athens, commemorating Athens's salvation...was erected about 450 B.C. on the Acropolis, almost certainly north of the site...imposing element in the appearance of the Acropolis, no undisputed copies have yet come...
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Déjà Vu
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...in "A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis" (1936a). D é j à...In "A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis," the same phenomenon is reversed since the reality of the Acropolis dissolves within the feeling of disbelief...
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