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  • There's project - Americans say prah-ject, Canadians pro-ject - and process, same distinction.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • There's project - Americans say prah-ject, Canadians pro-ject - and process, same distinction.

    tongues 2006

  • _Pro_ -- for, forth, forward; as, _pro-noun_, for a noun; _pro-tend_, to stretch forth; _pro-ject_, to shoot forward.

    English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

  • Daren Beaudo, a BP spokesman, insists the company designed and built the platform to meet "global industry engineering standards, including review and approval of pro-ject design and construction procedures by professional engineers."

    chron.com Chronicle 2010

  • They will select a pro-ject mentor and a leadership team to carry it out.

    courierpress.com Stories John Martin 2010

  • Despite the setback, Motiva still believes in the pro-ject and that demand for gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels will rise in the years ahead and remain an important part of the energy mix, company spokesman Stan Mays said.

    chron.com Chronicle 2009

  • At an earlier stage in my book I use some brilliant passages from William James to demonstrate the dimensions of this problem, which reappears in Sartre as the problem of the human project (that we "pro-ject" ourselves into the future, and that having such a project, for humans, is integral to getting there or anywhere).

    Kasama 2008

  • At an earlier stage in my book I use some brilliant passages from William James to demonstrate the dimensions of this problem, which reappears in Sartre as the problem of the human project (that we "pro-ject" ourselves into the future, and that having such a project, for humans, is integral to getting there or anywhere).

    Kasama 2008

  • Prince William police along with law enforcement agencies throughout the Washington, D.C. area will launch pro-ject "Street Smart" on Sunday.

    News for InsideNova.com 2008

  • No hyphenation algorithm has been invented to control rivers of white space, nor to distinguish between pro-ject (verb) and proj-ect (noun, unless one is Canadian).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2 1992

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