[…] to ensure that nothing is overlooked, or mislubricated from lack of experience.
A synonym ring (see Figure 9-2) connects a set of words that are defined as equivalent for the purposes of retrieval. In practice, these words are often not true synonyms.
If societies can come to accept (value) and optionalize (permit) ethnolinguistic diversity, so that some can treasure it for maintenance purposes, others for enrichment, and others for transitional purposes, I am sure that bilingual education will quickly become what it should be: an internally diversified alternative kind of education for those who want it.
Surtees became a friend of Walter Scott and played a very anticking joke upon the author.