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are born and die, alas, forgotten, The Oxford Dictionary follows a The society fell in with the Dean's like men and women. If he must wise conservatism in recognlelug A WOMAN'S DOPE-SMUGGLING proposal on the 7th January, 1858, traverse the dictionary to the end this group of words which seem to little dreaming that it would be of its numerous columna, his eyes disturb the peace of the few, who THE 41ST ANNUAL GENERAL
70-long years before the dictionary will travel 178 miles; perchance a look upon the admission, of new MEETING of MEMBERS will The sensational stories of dope was completed, and not until Oxford longer distance than his legs may words Into the English language, as be held in the BOARD ROOM of smuggling on the Thanet coast were University had spent £300,000 in
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Many words which once excited the wrath of this Johnson's Dictionary, DAY, JIST AUGUST, 1928, at 6.90 Catherine Lily Ebbett, 22, had boon erudition, private enterpriae, and inches, eight times wider than Dr. their standpoint.
found guilty at the Sandwich the richest display of voluntary. A distinctive feature, so far as class of purists, enjoy undisputed · BUSINESS:
quarter sessions of false pretences, workers from many nations which Lexicography goes, of this the currency.. Lady Holland could not Passing of Annual Report and Mr. Butler anid the woman, under the annals of English literature is greatest of all dictionaries, Is Its tolerate "influential" Wesley ful- Statement of Accounts. the name of Barbara Durrant, had able to record; enough to cause the "key" to the pronunciations ofminated against "originate"; been fooling the Customs officials Jibe against Oxford University, of worde. For English consonantalSydney Smith rebelled, at "mono- To consider any Business in the and giving endless trouble for some its being the home of lost causes, sounds it provides 16 letters or graph," seeking an entrance, into
Interest of the Club.
months. She supplied purely ima- never more to be cast against her.digrafs, seven of which are either English vocabulary. Macaulay ginary Information of a submersible It is pleasing to know that such a new or unusual characters; for took exception to "Ita"; while the craft supposed to enter Pegwell Bay large group of men and
foreign consonantal sounds seven Rev. G. C. Geldart resented the uso and land quantities of dope, which gave of their days and nights for unfamiliar symbols, are employed; of "foreword"; and "handbook" was supplied to persons in London. so many years, without fee or rewheresa for ordinary, long and was objectionable to Archbishop. She also stated that she had been ward, or having the slightest con-obscure vowels 64 -single or French. Such words as "potent- connected with dope-runners, who ception that their labours would be compound symbols are called ate," "swerve," "replete," "Isolated,"
Into were well armed and had headquar-; recognised.
quest-a significant
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The pronunciation-employed the Dictionary. Why not? Road, 3rd day of September, 1928, at can be accepted.
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printed in the English language. by Dr. Johnson and that instituted income of artisans much depleted; 13 p.m., at the Offices of the
W, E. HOLLANDS, Asked by the Recorder if Ebbett with this unexciting task they by the Oxford English Dictionary, yet many men venture to speculate Public Works Department, "by
Hon. Secretary. got anything out of this,
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Sir James Murray de-so much upon the purse, as on the assiduous tionary. Those suit gentlemen; board if desired, 75 years the option of
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silent Phonology was but in its baby-be forgotten that a fatherless boy, by the Surveyor of His Majesty the of entering teams in the above well Bay and that armed men scrutiny and self-imposed labours, hood in 1865. Just as Johnson did ones an inmate of à Workhouse, King, for one further term of 5 League for this season are remind- were to be there to receive it.
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The Recorder remarked that she great dictionary would have been in the pronunciation of the sea of al- or write when he was 15, rose to he August. Entrance fee $20 for must have been clover to fool all definitely prolonged, possibly, would most unpronounceable words, which Deputy Professor of Comparative cach team to accompany the ap- these people.
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