Romanes

When I'm chatting with someone and want to refer to Romanes, I call it "Gypsy" for the same reason -- it would be appallingly discourteous to use a name certain to go over their head, and I would find it unbearably pedantic to be saying things like "now, in Romanes, which is what you call 'Gypsy'..."

languagehat.com: LANGUAGE GUESSER. 2004

You have used both "Romanes" and "Inuktitut" without explanation in the past, though.

languagehat.com: LANGUAGE GUESSER. 2004

You have used both "Romanes" and "Inuktitut" without explanation in the past, though.

languagehat.com: LANGUAGE GUESSER. 2004

"Romanes" was used in a special sense to denote the Romans who maintained their independence against the Slavs.

Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

I think it will entertain you when it appears in November -- and perhaps interest -- by the adumbration of the line I mean to take if ever that "Romanes" Lecture at Oxford comes off.

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

Huxley's interest in these great problems appears and reappears throughout his published writings, but his views are most clearly and systematically exposed in his "Romanes" lecture on "Evolution and

Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

Dr.C. J. Romanes tells of a female chimpanzee who was taught to count straws up to five.

The Other Animals 2010

If Mr. Burroughs cannot answer to his own satisfaction, he may call Dr. Romanes a nature-faker and dismiss the incident from his mind.

The Other Animals 2010

Linda Griffiths's play, inspired by George Gissing's The Odd Women, has already been seen widely in North America, but it gets its UK premiere in a production by Stellar Quines, directed by Muriel Romanes.

This week's new theatre 2011

I do not feel called upon to characterise the accuracy of the drawings of embryos of different classes of the Vertebrata given by Haeckel in his popular works, and reproduced by Romanes and, for all that I know, other popular exponents of the evolution theory.

Haeckel had a point - The Panda's Thumb 2010