Otto Jespersen

Even before the war began, local Jews were tense because of anti-Semitic cartoons, recent boycotts of Israeli merchandise, and the highly publicized affair of Norwegian comic Otto Jespersen, who made anti-Semitic remarks on national television.

Anti-semitism rises in Norway... GayandRight 2009

Sometime last century, according to the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen, a little Dutch boy was sitting practising his Danish.

Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

Many of the traits Otto Jespersen wrote of as characteristic of female language without considering them innovative such as parataxis and lack of punctuation have since been associated with experimental writing.

Gender and Ambition in Literature « Gender Across Borders 2009

Otto Jespersen, the great Danish linguist, noticed in 1922 that children tended to shorten names by using the ends: Albert became Bert, Arabella just Bella and Elizabeth, Beth, Betty or Bess.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

Otto Jespersen, the great Danish linguist, noticed in 1922 that children tended to shorten names by using the ends: Albert became Bert, Arabella just Bella and Elizabeth, Beth, Betty or Bess.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

Otto Jespersen, the great Danish linguist, noticed in 1922 that children tended to shorten names by using the ends: Albert became Bert, Arabella just Bella and Elizabeth, Beth, Betty or Bess.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

Otto Jespersen, the great Danish linguist, noticed in 1922 that children tended to shorten names by using the ends: Albert became Bert, Arabella just Bella and Elizabeth, Beth, Betty or Bess.

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

Dane, Otto Jespersen, who introduced, among other things, the distinction between nexus and junction expressions, which roughly equals that made by Aris - totle between predicative and non-predicative expres - sions.

STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968

The alleged hunter they're stalking Otto Jespersen doesn't mess around - he has a suit of homemade armour for emergencies, patrols bridges, and drives around with huge spotlights ready to petrify his quarry.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Otto Jespersen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johanna Morck In this film, trolls prey on billy goats, get turned to stone and fart.

Evening Standard - Home Charlotte O'Sullivan 2011