The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 149Atlantic Monthly Company, 1932 - American essays |
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ENGLISH AS SHE WILL BE SPOKE BY ERNEST WEEKLEY I as ' exploratious menanderings , ' he is , within. THE problem of the perfect language has busied philosophers and philologists from time immemorial . Its conditions can be very simply ...
ENGLISH AS SHE WILL BE SPOKE BY ERNEST WEEKLEY I as ' exploratious menanderings , ' he is , within. THE problem of the perfect language has busied philosophers and philologists from time immemorial . Its conditions can be very simply ...
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Our Our lack of precision in sense was often a trial to Joseph Conrad , though he wrote English as no other foreigner has ever written it . As for grammar , I suppose that the essentially practical and thoroughly illogical temper of the ...
Our Our lack of precision in sense was often a trial to Joseph Conrad , though he wrote English as no other foreigner has ever written it . As for grammar , I suppose that the essentially practical and thoroughly illogical temper of the ...
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absence of corresponding forms , nor are they found in Biblical and Shakespearean English . Many students of English have advocated the creation of a new neutral pronoun and possessive which would save us from such complications as ...
absence of corresponding forms , nor are they found in Biblical and Shakespearean English . Many students of English have advocated the creation of a new neutral pronoun and possessive which would save us from such complications as ...
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