Punch, Volume 214Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman Punch Publications Limited, 1948 - Caricatures and cartoons |
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... mean , not pronunciation . It entertains me to see how people will always go for the picturesque , complicated derivation rather than the simple ordinary one , the one that's really infinitely more likely to be right merely because it's ...
... mean , not pronunciation . It entertains me to see how people will always go for the picturesque , complicated derivation rather than the simple ordinary one , the one that's really infinitely more likely to be right merely because it's ...
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... means more scuffing . It will thus be seen that the social side of life is not so much planned as a natural happening going from one stage to the next . I don't mean that my readers do not like to see their friends , but that they have ...
... means more scuffing . It will thus be seen that the social side of life is not so much planned as a natural happening going from one stage to the next . I don't mean that my readers do not like to see their friends , but that they have ...
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... mean that its esteemed order is to hand . " Inst . , " " ult . " and " prox . " mean of course either this or an adjoining month , and even people who consider they know no Latin may work out which by a bit of thought . " We regret ...
... mean that its esteemed order is to hand . " Inst . , " " ult . " and " prox . " mean of course either this or an adjoining month , and even people who consider they know no Latin may work out which by a bit of thought . " We regret ...
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