Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 316William Blackwood, 1974 |
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Page 313
... English Language ; its ety- mologies are in general perfectly sound . It is therefore madness to have any opinion at all as to the origin of an English word without first looking it up in O.E.D. or Webster . Thus it is no good thinking ...
... English Language ; its ety- mologies are in general perfectly sound . It is therefore madness to have any opinion at all as to the origin of an English word without first looking it up in O.E.D. or Webster . Thus it is no good thinking ...
Page 315
... English person , taking over the expressions , could have made the abbreviations for himself . No The chronology is strongly against gardyloo and lieu à l'anglaise ; how can we possibly fill in the long gap between the actual appearance ...
... English person , taking over the expressions , could have made the abbreviations for himself . No The chronology is strongly against gardyloo and lieu à l'anglaise ; how can we possibly fill in the long gap between the actual appearance ...
Page 316
... English it was on that point that he met his Waterloo . In French slang , waterloo may be used to mean ' bottom ... English language ? Almost any English person who had heard it in French could have intro- duced it and abbreviated it ...
... English it was on that point that he met his Waterloo . In French slang , waterloo may be used to mean ' bottom ... English language ? Almost any English person who had heard it in French could have intro- duced it and abbreviated it ...
Contents
A BENGAL MAGISTRATE IN THE 1860s BY W HARWOOD LONG | 167 |
A CIVIL SERVANT IN WARTIME BY R KELFCOHEN | 404 |
A LYONS TALE BY SIR JAMES BALFOUR PAUL | 430 |
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