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"Lawrence" -- this is an extremely worthwhile book, written by one of the foremost linguists of our day, who recently became Vice Chancellor of London University.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
Perhaps this is one step along the route of its decline by using the word as a euphemism for a vulgar or negative word -- in this case as the little girl said, "dirty."— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2
However, all this is now changing in this era of the short, catchy name.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2
(Whether this is also true of other countries I cannot say.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
In Britain this is the— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVII No 4
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