◎◎◎ aubergine ⪢⪢
Aubergine is more common in the UK. In America we usually say eggplants, EGGPLANT. Now the color of the eggplant is like purple so the
word aubergine is
used to describe a color as well as a vegetable. Have you ever eaten aubergine? Is it good?
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○○○ third person ⪢⪢
He explains that English does not have a third person singular pronoun that does not identify as male or female.
Zimmer says that more and more "they" is being
used to replace the traditional phrase, "he or she".
http://qindex.info/i.php?x=9415
○○○ USSR ⪢⪢
Ukraine shares borders with Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova, all countries that
used to have close ties to the former USSR.
→ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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