The word socialist has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.

[…] Ms. Ross translated Holiday’s animal woundedness into a weepy, soap-opera pseudo-sincerity.

If the tumour be termed myeloma the whole process may, for this reason, justly be termed myelomatosis.

The most frequently paraded example of apparent merger in English in the Labovian literature is the line—loin merger in Essex, England (see Labov, Yaeger, and Steiner 1972; Nunberg and Labov 1972; Nunberg 1980); the label stands for the coalescence of /oy/ and /ay/.