Collective re-training = "bastardisation" (unless the commander does it too). From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
This is a Pythonisation (lispers might rightly say "bastardisation") of the restart-based condition system of Common Lisp. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Witness their Blink 182-sponsored bastardisation of punk. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Pinches A Miserable Rockstar’s Gravestone] Reference
The word aggregation itself is a bastardisation, Umair countered. From Wordnik.com. [February « 2007 « Innovation Cloud] Reference
For instance, twenty-twenty cricket is a bastardisation of real cricket. From Wordnik.com. [Everyone's Running Scared of Gordon] Reference
I really wish there was a better way to combat the bastardisation of our language. From Wordnik.com. [Steele to Democrats: You have the votes, and you won, remember? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
See, that's the bastardisation of it, and then this is how it evolves into Blackbird. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
It's a bastardisation of the game designed to appeal to people who don't like cricket. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Actually, bastardisation is a perfectly acceptable sociological term...so i am forced to back up torytorytory. From Wordnik.com. [Everyone's Running Scared of Gordon] Reference
Robin Hobb applies a harsher ethic, disregarding all fanfic as intrinsically unoriginal and therefore a bastardisation of her work. From Wordnik.com. [Crimes of Fanfic « Whatever] Reference
I really enjoyed it and I'm a fan of the BBC one, and while it's necessarily contracted for time, it is by no means a bastardisation. From Wordnik.com. [7 Reasons Why the Keira Knightly Pride and Prejudice is Going to Suck, Based Solely on the Trailer] Reference
And this will just be more bastardisation of the comic that I fell in love with a month before I watched the movie in preparation for the film. From Wordnik.com. [Author Mark Millar Updates Details on Wanted Sequels « FirstShowing.net] Reference
I read something this week that suggested we have an academy to protect the English language from bastardisation like the French and Spanish do. From Wordnik.com. [Tabloid speak « Write Anything] Reference
Since it is essentially a bastardisation of standard English and is spoken everyday, of course it's not dying. posted by Devil's Kitchen at 9/16/2005 06:38:00 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Notes to a small island] Reference
None a genre is more lucrative than that of horror, and if there is one genre that is most prone to bastardisation there is not a more prime candidate than this. From Wordnik.com. [Alien Life-Cycle: Examining the Patterns of Horror Franchises | Obsessed With Film] Reference
Apparently it's a bastardisation of the words adventure and raven. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Population Research Presents a Sobering Prognosis] Reference
This is probably a bastardisation of the virtual keyword but you get the idea. From Wordnik.com. [MSDN Blogs] Reference
It almost makes the Champions League bastardisation of Handel sound dignified. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
It's a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. From Wordnik.com. [eclecticism] Reference
Energy companies are particularly fluent in the bastardisation of English that is Bilge. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
In this way even the most precise portrait is in some form a bastardisation of its original. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Perhaps the New Bands strategy would be best explained by the following bastardisation of the quote. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
Most recently Traveller's Tales squandered the Wii motion controls with the appalling bastardisation that is. From Wordnik.com. [Video Games Daily] Reference
There is no evidence to suggest a culture of bastardisation exists today in the NSW Fire Brigades, the state government says. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Maverick independent MP Andrew Wilkie last night admitted involvement in "bastardisation" at Duntroon Military College in 1983. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
Mr Wilkie said the culture of bastardisation was "endemic" in the defence force when he was at the military college in Canberra. From Wordnik.com. [The Australian | News |] Reference
How do you think a babaloa would feel about your bastardisation?). From Wordnik.com. [More on Cultural Appropriation] Reference
I reckon it’s because one of our terrace chants is a bastardisation of The Red Flag. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Limbaugh: Volcanic eruption in Iceland is God’s reaction to health care’s passage.] Reference
University of Zululand (and) the bastardisation of Vista and Unisa will surely have a devastating effect on social advancement, ". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
University of Zululand, the bastardisation of Vista and Unisa will surely have a devastating effect on social advancement, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
13 minutes ago, -0/+1Pardon my bastardisation of the word "your". From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
The bastardisation of victoria. From Wordnik.com. [DogfightAtBankstown] Reference
"eradicate" a police culture of "victimisation and bastardisation". From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Philippine police use Facebook in murder arrest] Reference
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