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  • And although a big Drake fan I have never really thought of him in tems of awards or Grand Master, although I am not sure of his age, I think there are a few more years left for to get this award.

    MIND MELD: Who Should Be The Next Grand Master? 2010

  • Free Web-based email, calendaring systems, word-processing, and phone and fax sys - tems can replace traditional and costly alternatives.

    Legal Practice 2009

  • Free Web-based email, calendaring systems, word-processing, and phone and fax sys - tems can replace traditional and costly alternatives.

    Practicing Law in the 21st Century 2008

  • Free Web-based email, calendaring systems, word-processing, and phone and fax sys - tems can replace traditional and costly alternatives.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2008

  • The Straylight security sys - tems keep trying to go full alert, but Wintermute blocks 'em, don't ask me how.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • Cette distribution devoit rendre à la vérité la composition plus difficile, mais en même tems l'harmonie plus serrée & plus agréable.

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008

  • Keep the Clintons out of the white house, we already had to suffer through two tems of them, and for me that was two too many.

    Obama, Clinton supporters both say Clinton attacking unfairly 2008

  • Free Web-based email, calendaring systems, word-processing, and phone and fax sys - tems can replace traditional and costly alternatives.

    Web resources 2008

  • Not surprisingly, he said the shirt has been "one of our hotter i tems."

    Dallas Braden 2010

  • Free Web-based email, calendaring systems, word-processing, and phone and fax sys - tems can replace traditional and costly alternatives.

    Daily Record--Legal Currents Column 2008

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  • Seems most "tems" are just typos, but in the bio for Stephen Chrisomalis, I come across it twice: "Dr. Stephen Chrisomalis (Wayne State University) is a linguistic anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of mathematics and the interaction of language, cognition and culture. His four-field anthropological training includes work in cultural, cognitive, archaeological, and linguistic anthropology. His book, Numerical Notation: A Comparative History, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010, is a cross-cultural cognitive analysis of tems of written numerals as used over the past 5000 years. His work focuses on the relationship between individual cognition and broader social, political, and economic processes. Understanding how tems of number words and number symbols interact in specific contexts - how they are used rather than simply how they are structured - helps us to rethink assumptions such as the widely-held belief that we are now at the 'end of history' of number tems." Now, would Dr. Chisomalis allow two typos in his bio? His "Phrontistery" website is proof that he's really careful about words—beyond careful, really: nearly obsessed. Wonder if he knows that tems are (or is, if it's not plural nor typo)?

    July 4, 2020

  • So what's the answer? I got tem bucks riding on this.

    July 4, 2020

  • I posit that it's an artifact of OCR (optical character recognition) and it's just supposed to be the word terms. I got fitty cents on it.

    July 6, 2020