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exception that proves the rule

figure of speech

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Oxford English Dictionary

descriptive linguistics

Benjamin Jowett

linguistic prescription

Henry Watson Fowler

Lucius Cornelius Balbus

The Detroit News

All models are wrong

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What links here15 pages

special pleading

The Exception and the Rule

apples and oranges

Everything which is not forbidden is allowed

list of Latin phrases

Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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English grammar

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locutionary act

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Sonority Sequencing Principle

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