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A Middle English satirical Letter in Brogyntyn MS II.1.(ESSAYS)
ANQ
; Brogyntyn MS II.1 (formerly known as Porkington MS 10) is a miscellany of a kind frequently found in Middle English, containing a wide variety of entertaining, instructive, and religious texts. In the first quire, eight scribes contributed a total of nine items on such topics as prognostication,
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Me-generation enters dictionary
The Independent - London
; LIFESTYLE DRUGS, docusoap and the me-generation are among the new additions to the Concise Oxford Dictionary. "Oi" is being taken even more seriously with the recognition of a variant spelling - "oy".
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Language bottoms out
Belfast Telegraph
; What he may not realise, given that he feels the need to surround the term Ulster-Scots with apostrophes, is that the word Erse is itself derived from the word Erisch, a variant Scots-language spelling of Irish. Erse as a variant spelling of 'airse' has, of course, another meaning altogether in
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Corrections and clarifications.(Neighbor)(Correction notice)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
; A story on B. Pierre Lebeau in the Neighbor section of some Nov. 13 editions used a variant spelling of John Baptiste Pointe de Sable, the first non-native settler in Chicago, that Lebeau says is not correct. He also disputes the commonly held belief about de Sable's parents that was mentioned in
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Do what you're told.(PUZZLE)
Harper's Magazine
; DETAIN VAINEST SUPERS, ADSORB GIN, SALUTE ANTICS. This instruction contains all you need to know to produce the seven unclued entries in the diagram. Just follow instructions. Answers include eight proper names and one variant spelling. 10A and 32D are uncommon. As always, mental repunctuation of a
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THE RED PENCIL
The Washington Post
; Keeping Words Alive Part 2 of 2 So the English make it an annual ritual to walk every path in order to keep the occasional cranky landowner from legally shutting it down. And so it is with words. If a word, or a variant spelling, is not used, it eventually dies. Do you really want that? I don't.
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Radical sheikh chic.
The Evening Standard (London, England)
; THE GLOBAL fashion industry is bracing itself for some radical sheik. Yeslam Binladin, one of Osama's 53 siblings who uses a variant spelling of the family name, is planning to launch a clothing line under the label 'Bin Ladin'. Seemingly unworried that this notorious moniker might pose a marketing
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Radical sheikh chic
Evening Standard - London
; THE GLOBAL fashion industry is bracing itself for some radical sheik. Yeslam Binladin, one of Osama's 53 siblings who uses a variant spelling of the family name, is planning to launch a clothing line under the label 'Bin Ladin'. Seemingly unworried that this notorious moniker might pose a marketing
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ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe
; Q. One of Richard Gere's early movies was "Yanks." I especially liked it because I, too, was a war bride. Who wrote the book upon which it was based? What can you tell me about the writer? M.P., Sandwich A. Colin Williams, with a variant spelling of Welland, was born in 1934 in Liverpool. He
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Follow-up on the news.(BTW)(Fallwell.com's trademark infrigement of televangelist Jerry Falwell)(Brief Article)
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
; As was reported in the last BTW, a website called Fallwell.com had been enjoined from operating because a New York court ruled that, despite the variant spelling, it infringed on the trademark of televangelist Jerry Falwell. The site's operator, Christopher Lamparello, took the fight to a higher
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