surd

• Despite the mystery, when it comes to gratuitous or surd evil I see no justifiable rationale. —  ExChristian.Net -- encouraging ex-Christians
• Gus! tug a mean surd is smart upon my preference of an incommensurable value of [pi] to 3-1/5, or some such simple substitute. —  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
• The problems have a surd or irrational element in them; and to solve them would be to bring reason into collision with itself Now, whatever may be the difficulties of establishing a theory of life, or a philosophy, it has never been shown to be an unreasonable task to attempt it. —  Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
• See a medial sh_, a sonant-surd Dakota letter), as ch in church as th in thin a medial ç, sonant-surd as th in the e, as in they e, an initially exploded e as in get an initially exploded g, as in go in Dakota), gh_. —  Siouan Sociology
• See x in Osage), an h after a pure or nasalized vowel, expelled through the mouth with the lips wide apart in Dakota), kh_, etc. See q i, as in machine i, an initially exploded i as in pin j, as z in azure_, or as j in the French Jacques a medial k, a sonant-surd k’, an exploded k. See next letter in Dakota), an exploded k in Kansa), a medial m, a sound between m and b in Dakota), after a vowel has the sound of n in the French bon_. —  Siouan Sociology

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