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Electropac Company.(People)(Otto Jespersen; Arnold Waldner; Bill Letts)(Brief Article)
; Manchester, NH -- Electropac Co., Inc. held retirement ceremonies to bid farewell to three long-time employees: Otto Jespersen, Arnold Waldner, and Bill Letts. These outstanding gentlemen have a combined total of 60 years of service to the Electropac...
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BARS & STRIPES.(News)
; COMIC Otto Jespersen faces prosecution and possible jail along with an editor after he burned the US flag on Norwegian TV.
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The Red Pencil
; ...who completely agrees with Fowler. The noted linguist Otto Jespersen poked so many holes in Fowler's arguments that even...remarkable clarity. Regardless, major authorities such as Jespersen, Follett, and Bernstein did it for him. They write...
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Anniversaries
; ...Corot, painter, 1796; Luigi Arditi, violinist and composer, 1822; Henri Viotta, conductor and composer, 1848; Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, linguist and philologist, 1860; George A. Birmingham (the Rev James Owen Hannay), novelist, 1865; Roald Amundsen...
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Food & Drink: How food can tell you where it's been
; ...food: its history, its inventiveness, the traces it leaves in literature. Well, not always: say, since I first read Otto Jespersen on the English language and realised what an imperial affair the language of food can be. How did our ox, cooked...
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A framework for the analysis of cleft constructions(*).
; ...It takes as its point of departure Jespersen's second (1937), nonderivational, analysis...previously assumed in the literature. 1. Jespersen's analyses In his Modern English Grammar...chapter IV on Relative clause adjuncts ), Otto Jespersen (1927) makes the following observation...predicative ...
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PEOPLE: Depression is no joke, says Norway's PM
; ...a comedian who ridiculed him on television. Independent TV2, bowing to fierce criticism, cancelled a show in which Otto Jespersen suggested hiring an assassin to kill Mr Bondevik and said he had to be "on heavy medication to get through daily life...
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Budget Cut Hits Norway TV's DVD Unit.(Brief Article)
; ...DVD authoring fray last October when its Sonic-equipped in-house facility released its first title, O.J., featuring Otto Jespersen, a local comedian. Well received by press, the disc was used by NRK as a training project for the post-production...
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Norwegian comedian charged after burning US flag.(Brief Article)
; ...has been charged with insulting the flag of a foreign state after burning the US flag on national television. Both Otto Jespersen and the managing director of TV2 television, Kaare Valebrokk, have now been formally charged and face up to a year...
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THE RED PENCIL
; ...infinitive is accepted as one word, the split infinitive debate fizzles. One of the foremost commentators on usage, Otto Jespersen, makes the point in "Essentials of English Grammar" (1933): "The name is misleading, for the preposition to no more...
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