Swinge - A verb meaning meaning thrash or punish.
Obama wants to keep them for all but the rich; the doves think they should be continued for everyone and the hawks say they should not only be abandoned but accompanied by swingeing tax rises..
The following terms impressed me very much:
Pluralia Tantum - A word meaning nouns that have only plural forms. Thanks to Richard Nordquist.
Singulare tantum - Nouns that appear in singular form only.
The following are extracts from an Prospect magazine article:
"...Psychoanalysis was born 113 years ago when Freud applied the term “psychical analysis” to his treatment of disturbed patients....CBT, now the NHS treatment of choice, was developed in the 1960s by American psychoanalyst, Aaron T Beck."
The End of Science (1996) is a book written by John Horgan, a staff writer for Scientific American.
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