Word: au
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...boursier doit etre muni d'une lettre adressee au Directeur de l'Ecole des Sciences Politiques, et attestant...
...choix qui a ete fait de lui par les autorites competentes, comme titulaire pour une ou 2 annees, de la bourse inscrite au nom de Harvard University...
Again it was suggested that if we take the words ce qui pend au talon, "that which hangs down to the heels," and then erase all but the verb and the noun, we shall retain the sound of pantalons, from which the present spelling might well arise. The word, at any rate, has been used in English since the time of Hudibras, who says...
Must bid an au revoir...
Stephens, N. J., 148 Mt. Au. Winlock...