Citations:accommodation
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English citations of accommodation
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- 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
- Now as this law, under a modified form, is to this day in force in England; and as it offers in various respects a strange anomaly touching the general law of Fast and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty.
- 1994 January 13, Douglas Biber, Edward Finegan, Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Register, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 272:
- Coupland, Nikolas. [...] 1984. "Accommodation at Work: Some Phonological Data and their Interpretations."
- 2017 February 13, Annette Becker, Markus Bieswanger, Introduction to English Linguistics, UTB, →ISBN, page 178:
- Pilots [...] use the word fuselage whereas laypeople would more likely call the same "thing" the body of an aircraft. [...] We have said above that speakers often signal that they belong to a certain group by making their language more similar to that of the other group members [...] we thus adapt our language, dialect, accent, style and/or register to that of our addressee or addressees. This process is called speech accommodation. Among the reasons for accommodation may be our desire to identify more closely with the addressee(s), […]
- 2022 April 20, Caity Weaver, “I Lived the #VanLife. It Wasn’t Pretty.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- The Department of Housing and Urban Development characterizes vehicles as places “not designated for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation,” and because of this it counts people who live in them as members of the “unsheltered homeless” population. But it is ordinary to use some specially designed vehicles — R.V.s, say — as a regular sleeping accommodation, so HUD also advises that whether a vehicle-dweller counts as “unsheltered” is, to some extent, at the counter’s discretion.