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“It is a sobering thought to remember that, between his first and second terms as Presidente del Consiglio, the hotch-potch centrist/left-wing government could have easily passed laws to prevent him from gaining power again.”
The Huffington Post: Frederic Whyte: The Long-Overdue Demise of Silvio Berlusconi
“But of our hotch-potch of nationalities fore and aft there is no person who catches an inkling of their language or nationality.”
“These children had no effective catalyst to turn a hotch-potch of letters and words into meaningful information.”
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“The hotch-potch of influences is reflected in their suburban New York home where we meet, a large house set in its own thick greenery in an area of real estate where residents are surely more familiar with hedge funds and stock fluctuations than fistulas or honour killings.”
The Guardian: Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide
“The Brown affair has now for some time been a hotch-potch of all the wrongs attributed to it by fmr.”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“For a longer article on the groupings, this hotch-potch, by Grant Osborne and other writers, could help.”
“No longer should the NHS rely on a hotch-potch of elderly computer systems, they told him.”
“It was only when we reached the U.S. that it occurred to me how neat and tidy America looks from the air compared with the U.K. which is a complete disorganised higgledy-piggledy patchwork hotch-potch.”
“Your reading has introduced you to a hotch-potch of new ideas and opinions; you have made a certain acquaintance with researches that are going on in various directions — researches that seem to you to upset a good many ideas that people have hitherto considered incontrovertible and unassailable.”
“Arms importers and exporters would have a clear set of rules to abide by with every arms transfer, rather than the current hotch-potch of uneven and conflicting regulation that fails to control the trade today.”
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
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Nick nacks
I started a list on the Wordie with a different log-in and now I can't find it. Sigh. So I'm starting again. These are monosyllabic double barrels that I like the sound of. Part of our human instin...
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soup words
soup words
gazpacho, minestrone, consomme, avgolemono, chowder, bouillabaisse, borscht, bouillon, mulligatawny, vichyssoise, albondigas, bisque and 47 more...
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