As a result, linguists often disagree about which tongues belong to a particular family.
No biting of tongues creates a straightforward and honest environment that helps us move faster.
We have to bite our tongues as it's their money which has paid for all this.
Are they less worthy than the celebrated few on the tips of our tongues?
Then, as now, ambitious folk no doubt held their tongues to hold on to their jobs.
Barbet buffs believe the breed has all the characteristics to get American tongues wagging.
According to linguists, the world's tongues are divided into about 250 groups, known as stocks.
The trouble is not a shortage of tongues, for the Swiss have four of their own.
The flames at that point were barely noticeable, just tiny tongues lapping at the flammable material.
The Catalan law of 1983 seemed to keep most speakers of both tongues happy.
The people of God and the unsaved will be gathered together by tribe, tongues, and nations.
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It leaves us with little options but to put our tongues out and ask for some.
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This version had begun seeping into us since birth, very subtly, with the honey on our tongues.
For decades, sharp tongues on the bench have lashed at the stubborn complexity of the tax code.
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Other key products to look out for are electronic noses and their more recent cousins, electronic tongues.
Privatisation and foreign investment have become the twin mantras that trip off the tongues of Gulf planners.
Nobody loved our sentences as we loved them, and so they congealed or grew sour on our tongues.
But Bayless gave him only 5, all heavy on ingredients like tomatillos that are foreign to U.S. tongues.
He is bullied and beaten until one day an old man gives him a bag of crocodile tongues.
The phrase is typically used to mean something different from speaking in tongues.
Mark Abler, a Canadian writer, says the protection of endangered species is closely linked to the preservation of tongues.
The result is a growing list of tongues spoken only by white-haired elders.
The other is whether allowing looser corporate tongues is good, leading to better pricing, or bad, leading to hype.
The lambs bleated for moisture, their tongues rattling in their parched pink mouths.
These four groups account for more than a third of the 7, 000 or so tongues spoken around the world today.
Most people may not have this on the tip of their tongues but air pollution is even tougher on kids.
Abigail Carney, Chair of the Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust read two poems commissioned for the occasion: Through the Traffic of Tongues.
Sure enough, many tongues have spoken: last Sunday, for example, fully 19 senators popped up on the television talk shows.
For the first 100-odd years, he says, South Africa's Indians taught and spoke to their children in their native tongues.
The role of mother tongues is reaffirmed as a key factor for promoting literacy and quality education in multilingual contexts.
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