Littell's Living Age, Volume 128Living Age Company Incorporated, 1876 |
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Page 510
... words are like fine clothes . If we word ecstatic was deemed to be wrongly have them , why should we not make use spelt with " x , " but this was usual in the of them ? We do not know the precise last century . If the competitors were ...
... words are like fine clothes . If we word ecstatic was deemed to be wrongly have them , why should we not make use spelt with " x , " but this was usual in the of them ? We do not know the precise last century . If the competitors were ...
Page 511
... words of the same class , there awkward if the manager of a " spelling- will perhaps never be , and there certainly bee , " either in America or here , pro- is not , agreement . We should write of nounced words as he hears his friends ...
... words of the same class , there awkward if the manager of a " spelling- will perhaps never be , and there certainly bee , " either in America or here , pro- is not , agreement . We should write of nounced words as he hears his friends ...
Page 575
... word " pigeon " ( i.e. " business " ) , is a misnomer . It is a mixture of Eng- lish and Portuguese words tortured into Chinese idioms , and when it is added that only a very small percentage of these words are at all correctly ...
... word " pigeon " ( i.e. " business " ) , is a misnomer . It is a mixture of Eng- lish and Portuguese words tortured into Chinese idioms , and when it is added that only a very small percentage of these words are at all correctly ...
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