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The ailing Zairean leader's departure for the Gabonese capital on Wednesday prompted speculation that he was leavis country for good, just three days after inconclusive talks with rebel leader Laurent Kabila, whose forces are closing in on
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It is a further confirmation of this opinion, that in the old poets both the genitive and plural were longer by a syllable than the original word: knitis for knight's, in Chaucer; leavis for leaves, in
A Grammar of the English Tongue Samuel Johnson 1746
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