SINGSONG
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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SINGSONG, also sing-song. A usually disparaging or condescending term for a rhythm or tone regarded as musical but monotonous and considered typical of certain
ACCENTS, such as those of speakers of English in Wales and parts of Asia: ‘A trace of Holyhead Welsh to his sing-song accent’ ( Ian Thomson,
Independent, 29 Dec. 1990). See
PHILIPPINE ENGLISH,
SINGAPORE ENGLISH,
WELSH ENGLISH.
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JAMES DWIGHT DANA NEVER LIVED IN ALBANY.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/4/1999; 370 words
; ...Clarksville The writer is secretary of the Dana Natural History Society. - We were...article by Elizabeth Benjamin) that Dana Park will experience yet another resurrection. But its namesake, James Dwight Dana, 19th-century geologist and a...
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LONG-NEGLECTED DANA PARK FACES PROSPECT OF REBIRTH.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/17/1999; 700+ words
; ...writer Thousands of people pass by Dana Park each day, but it may be one...to zoologist and Albany resident James Dwight Dana. But Dana Park is unkempt and usually...the street.'' CAPTION(S): JAMES GOOLSBY/TIMES UNION JOHN SAMATULSKI...
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OBIT - JARRETT, JAMES DWIGHT
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News; 8/19/2008; 542 words
; James Dwight Jarrett, 62, a resident...Wimmer Tuck and the late Ervin James Jarrett. He was a retired...NASCAR fan of Jeff Gordon. Dwight was a veteran of the United...Timothy Podnar and wife, Dana, and Janet Salmons; four...
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Scientist unearthed state's gems; Work predates modern geology.(LOCAL NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 2/1/2008; 700+ words
; ...down to the bedrock of our lives. Dana, a bit of research quickly showed, was James Dwight Dana, a native of Utica, N.Y...can occupy many human lifetimes. James Dwight Dana died in 1895. His son, Edward...
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On a toothed bird's place in nature
Magazine article from: Natural History; 2/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...can only be his fellow scientist James Dwight Dana (1813-1895)--geologist, biologist...University in the late 1840s.) Dana and Darwin never met personally...the Beagle from 1831 to 1836, and Dana on the Wilkes Expedition of 1838...
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ALBANY'S LAST HORSE TROUGH BACK IN SERVICE.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 6/2/1988; 700+ words
; ...monument erected in 1903 in memory of James Dwight Dana, a noted geologist and contemporary...horse, Schyler, in Albany's Dana Park off Delaware Avenue which honors James Dwight Dana, a noted geologist.
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SHARK FINNING AND CORAL REEF PRESERVATION:JOHN C. OGDEN
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 10/21/1999; 700+ words
; ...U.S. geologist by the name of James Dwight Dana, followingbyonlyafewyearsinthefootstepsofChariesDarwin...pioneering circumnavigation of the globe, Dana was attracted to the beauty and biological...of corals to build massive reefs. Dana extended Darwin's observations...
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Gazetteer of major New York State mineral localities.
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...history in 1842. The various publications of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana contained geographical listings of important mineral localities as appendices (e.g., Dana 1874; Dana 1877, 1892). Herbert P. Whitlock...
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The Peabody Museum Collection: Yale University.
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...developed through the investigations and publications of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, which formed the basis of...Burke, 1978). In 1798 the President of Yale, Timothy Dwight the Elder, persuaded the Yale Corporation to approve...
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The Peabody Museum collection Yale University
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...developed through the investigations and publications of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, which formed the basis of...Burke, 1978). In 1798 the President of Yale, Timothy Dwight the Elder, persuaded the Yale Corporation to approve...
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Dana, James Dwight
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Dana, James Dwight ( b . Utica, New York, 12 February 1813...14 April 1895) geology . The son of James Dana, a saddler and hardware merchant, and Harriet Dwight, Dana grew up in a respectable, churchgoing...
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James Dwight Dana
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
James Dwight Dana 1813-95, American geologist, mineralogist...of the continents and oceans. In 1837, Dana published A System of Minerology, which...commanded by Charles Wilkes (1838-42). Dana's reports, published in large volumes...
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Silliman Sr., Benjamin (1779-1864)
Book article from: American Eras
...evangelical Christian. One of Dwight’s primary purposes...To qualify him for the position Dwight sent him to Philadelphia to attend...Hitchcock, Charles Upham Shepard, James Dwight Dana, and Denison Olmsted, became...
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Science and Religion, Relations of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Yale College president Timothy Dwight (1752 – 1817), for...The Bible was God's word, Dwight argued, and science studied God...two leading geologists, Yale's James Dwight Dana (1813 – 1895) and the...
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Daniel Coit Gilman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Gilman came to know the geologist James Dwight Dana, whose biographer he subsequently became. At Dana's request he proposed a plan for...x2014;Charles Eliot of Harvard, James B. Angell of Michigan, and Andrew...
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