Winged WordsHamilton, 1988 - 292 pagini |
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... person ; an insignificant person ; a nobody ; a nincompoop ; a naff wally . It seems to my idiolect a dated word of the Thirties , though it still lives as a term of abuse in Parliament , unless the Speaker hears you . Erskine May , the ...
... person ; an insignificant person ; a nobody ; a nincompoop ; a naff wally . It seems to my idiolect a dated word of the Thirties , though it still lives as a term of abuse in Parliament , unless the Speaker hears you . Erskine May , the ...
Pagina 36
... person who is being worked over by a social worker , for the initiative is not with him . In fact the social worker has no ' lay ' clients , but is rather in the position of a barrister , whose clients are other lawyers , viz . the ...
... person who is being worked over by a social worker , for the initiative is not with him . In fact the social worker has no ' lay ' clients , but is rather in the position of a barrister , whose clients are other lawyers , viz . the ...
Pagina 225
... person and number . So we have : ' It is I who am wrong . ' The archaic English of the Book of Common Prayer ( final draft 1662 ) followed this rule invariably : ' O God who knowest . . . ' ( second - person singular ) ; ' Through Jesus ...
... person and number . So we have : ' It is I who am wrong . ' The archaic English of the Book of Common Prayer ( final draft 1662 ) followed this rule invariably : ' O God who knowest . . . ' ( second - person singular ) ; ' Through Jesus ...
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