Word: det
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caesar's Fault. Shaw seems just to be getting up full steam on Darwinism when he jumps the track and chugs off on a discussion of the English language. "An intelligent child who is bidden to spell debt, and very properly spells it det, is caned for not spelling it with a b because Julius Caesar spelt the Latin word for it with...
Muncrief, St. L. Newhouser, Det Leonard, Wash. Gromek, Cleve. Ferriss, Boston Wolff, Wash. Benton, Det. Reynolds, Cleve Sevens, N. Y. Potter...
When Reader's Digest editors several months ago decided to publish at Stockholm a Swedish language edition* called Det Besta ur Reader's Digest (TIME, Feb. 1) they figured they would be lucky to sell 20,000 copies of the first issue. Optimistically, they decided to run off 75,000 copies anyway, just in case...
...third may be even bigger: there is plenty of paper in Sweden and Det Besta ur Reader's Digest's ultimate circulation will be limited only by its popularity...
...exported in languages other than English is Reader's Digest, which has editions in Spanish (800,000 copies) and Portuguese (400,000), largely for Latin Americans, and in March will bring out a Swedish-language edition to be published in Stockholm (where paper is plentiful) and called Det Besta ur Reader's Digest (The Best from the Reader's Digest...