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• top over terve — …   Useful english dictionary

• Finnish language — language name=Finnish nativename=suomi pronunciation=/ˈsuo.mi/ states=FIN EST Flag|Ingria Flag|Karelia NOR SWE Flag|Torne Valley region=Northern Europe speakers=about 6 million script=Latin alphabet (Finnish variant) familycolor=Uralic fam2=Finno …   Wikipedia

• topsy-turvy — 1520s, but prob. in popular use from an earlier period [OED], likely from tops, plural of TOP (Cf. top) (n.1) highest point + obsolete terve turn upside down, topple over, from O.E. tearflian to roll over, overturn, from P.Gmc. *terbanan (Cf. O.H …   Etymology dictionary

• Anglophone pronunciation of foreign languages — The following is a list of common non native pronunciations English speakers make when trying to speak foreign languages. Much of it is due to transfer of phonological rules from English to the new language as well as differences in grammar and… …   Wikipedia

• topsy-turvy — topsy turvily, adv. topsyturviness, n. /top see terr vee/, adv., adj., n., pl. topsy turvies. adv. 1. with the top where the bottom should be; upside down. 2. in or into a reversed condition or order. 3. in or into a state of confusion or… …   Universalium

• Bernhard Crusell — Bernhard Henrik Crusell (15 October 1775 – 28 July 1838)[1] was a Swedish Finnish clarinetist, composer and translator, the most significant and internationally best known Finnish born classical composer and inde …   Wikipedia

• topsy-turvy — top•sy tur•vy [[t]ˈtɒp siˈtɜr vi[/t]] adv. adj. n. pl. vies 1) with the top where the bottom should be; upside down 2) in or into a state of confusion or disorder 3) turned upside down; inverted; reversed 4) confused or disorderly 5) inversion of …   From formal English to slang

• top´sy-tur´vi|ness — top|sy tur|vy «TOP see TUR vee», adverb, adjective, noun, plural vies. –adv. adjective. 1. upside down. 2. Figurative. in confusion or disorder: »A lively child is a godsend, even if she turns the whole house topsy turvy (Harriet Beecher Stowe).… …   Useful english dictionary

• top´sy-tur´vi|ly — top|sy tur|vy «TOP see TUR vee», adverb, adjective, noun, plural vies. –adv. adjective. 1. upside down. 2. Figurative. in confusion or disorder: »A lively child is a godsend, even if she turns the whole house topsy turvy (Harriet Beecher Stowe).… …   Useful english dictionary

• top|sy-tur|vy — «TOP see TUR vee», adverb, adjective, noun, plural vies. –adv. adjective. 1. upside down. 2. Figurative. in confusion or disorder: »A lively child is a godsend, even if she turns the whole house topsy turvy (Harriet Beecher Stowe). –n. confusion; …   Useful english dictionary