Dictionaries and Languages

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) designates the word yes as an exclamation when it is (i) used to answer a question and say that sth is correct or true, (ii) used to show that one agrees with what has been said, (iii) used to disagree with sth negative that sb has just said, (iv) used

Today’s walk through the countryside starts at the English verb expect. A pregnant woman is said to be expecting. Does Bangla too stretch its ordinary words for ‘expect’ to cover pregnancy, we wonder. But the language stonewalls us. Nothing of the sort happens. This negative result does not necessarily close the chapter, though. Perhaps you,