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‘Cento’ is not English, but a Latin word used in English, so long as it makes its plural not ‘centos’, but ‘centones’, as in the old anonymous translation of Augustin’s City of God_{54}; and ‘specimen’, while it makes its plural ‘specimina’ (Howe).

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  1. conjunction On the contrary: the plan caused not prosperity but ruin.
  2. conjunction Contrary to expectation; yet: She organized her work but accomplished very little. He is tired but happy.
  3. conjunction Usage Problem Used to indicate an exception: No one but she saw the prowler.
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  • This university has instruction in English, but is located in the mainly French-speaking city of Montreal. —  LearnHub Activities
  • The wood can be made into different sizes, small or large, you have no control over this but is the pieces are larger you will get more money.
  • The other, his cousin Khaleel Ahmed, was born in India but is a naturalized U.S. citizen. reprints this: —  The Jawa Report
  • Nashville Star, as well as produce the album of the Paulagate 2008, but is American Idol's Jason Castro ready to call it quits? —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • Additionally, even if the but is allowed I think it sends a confusing message to those not as politically astute as we who are posting these comments might be. —  FreeMarketNews.com - World News/Editorials and Analysis
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  1. Middle English, from Old English būtan; see ud- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also bot, bote; from Middle English but, bot, bute, bote, buten, boten, with a short vowel; parallel with the equivalent early modern English bout (especially as a preposition, without; cf. about, the same word with a prefix: see bout, and bout = about), from Middle English bout, boute, bouten, earlier būte, būten, retaining the orig. long vowel, from Anglo-Saxon būtan, būton, poetical be-ūtan, Old Northumbrian būta (= Old Saxon biūtan, būtan = OFries. būten, būta, bōta = Middle Low German būten, būt, Low German būten = Dutch buiten = Old High German biūzan), without, outside, from be, by, with, + ūtan, out. orig. from without, from ūt, out: see be- and out, and cf. the correlative bin, = Scots ben, within (from be- + in), and about, above, which also contain the element be-.
  2. Scots, from but, adv.,prep., and conj., outside, without. Cf. the correlative ben, n.
 

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