Chapter 3 of Friend Mac Donald is here in full — 172 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 3 of Friend Mac Donald is here in full — 172 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
All Scots know how to reckon. -- Rabelais in Scotland. -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up. -- Difference between buying and stealing. -- Scotch Honesty.
Chapter 3 of Friend Mac Donald is here in full — 172 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
the act of buying
From this reading “-- Difference between buying and stealing.”
the quality of being honest
From this reading “-- Scotch Honesty.”
plural of “penny” — a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound
From this reading “-- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.”
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading “All Scots know how to reckon.”
a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
From this reading “-- Scotch Honesty.”
one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
From this reading “-- Rabelais in Scotland.”
the dialect of English used in Scotland
From this reading “All Scots know how to reckon.”
the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
From this reading “-- Difference between buying and stealing.”
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Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “-- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.”
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(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All Scots know how to reckon.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading -- Difference between buying and stealing.
in the space, time, or range separating two things
From this reading -- Difference between buying and stealing.
the act of buying
From this reading -- Difference between buying and stealing.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
the quality of being unlike or dissimilar
From this reading -- Difference between buying and stealing.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
the act of departing
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
an English coin worth half a penny
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
the quality of being honest
From this reading -- Scotch Honesty.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading All Scots know how to reckon.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading -- Rabelais in Scotland.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
From this reading All Scots know how to reckon.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
produced by a manufacturing process
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
plural of “penny” — a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553)
From this reading -- Rabelais in Scotland.
expect, believe, or suppose
From this reading All Scots know how to reckon.
a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
From this reading -- Scotch Honesty.
one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
From this reading -- Rabelais in Scotland.
the dialect of English used in Scotland
From this reading All Scots know how to reckon.
the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
From this reading -- Difference between buying and stealing.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading All Scots know how to reckon.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading -- How Donald made two pence halfpenny by going to the Lock-up.
Chapter 3 of Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell holds 172 sentences, grouped into 35 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 3 holds 172 sentences of Friend Mac Donald, unabridged, divided into 35 reading sections.
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