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earwitness

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ear·wit·ness  (îrwtns)
n.
A person who has heard someone or something and can bear witness to the fact.



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He discusses the first earwitness to the thunder of his Arafatas in Dubliners, distinguishing between the sense (prain) from the sound (bray) of Stephen Dedalus' poor traits of the artless, imeffable tries at speech unasyllabled in Finnegans Wake, and so on.
Joyce (to cite a prose master) does this with Arabic in an early passage of Finnegans Wake: Our cubehouse still rocks as earwitness to the thunder of his arafatas but we hear also through successive ages that shabby choruysh of unkalified muzzlenimiissilehims that blackguardise the whitestone ever hurtleturtled out of heaven.
A: Earwitness B: Nosewitness C: Eyewitness D: Tonguewitness pounds 500 Q: When food is diced, it is cut into what shapes?
 
 
 
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