And Mr Wannerton's relatively rare form is known as word-taste or lexical gustatory synaesthesia.

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The best a single-volume dictionary can hope to do is offer up a tantalizing smorgasbord of lexical tidbits.

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Mr Laurrent has a taste for lexical rarities and delights in scientific descriptions.

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In his most poignant and hilarious chapter, Mr Pemble shows how Desdemona's handkerchief triggered a battle for lexical political correctness.

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Real lexical boundaries tend to vary where Dr Regier's algorithm produced several options that were almost as good as each other.

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Central to the cultural space of Palenque de San Basilio is the palenquero language, the only creole language in Latin America with a lexical Spanish basis and grammatical characteristics of Bantu languages.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

The exhibit even displays a recipe for brewing beer, as well as lexical lists and glossaries that scribes complied and relied on and which, more recently, have been of invaluable help to scholars.

WSJ: The Ur-Metropolis | Uruk | Pergamon Museum | By A.J. Goldmann

One change is lexical.

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