Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning was the English Department. And the English Department created the criticism and the con-centration, and all the requirements of the field and all the thesis of the air. And the English Department looked down and saw that it was good. Then the English Department looked about, and saw vast ignorance among the people concerning the English Bible. So the English Department created the Bible requirement and gave the people English 13 so they might fulfill it and be saved. And the English Department formed Morton Bloomfield out of the dust of Widener, and of the dust of books...
...University will recommend that you take a worthwhile reading comprehension course at the Bureau of Study Council. So the ends of this test are kindly, but the means are a drag. The material on the test is guaranteed to be dull (in '75 it was some drivel about English kings of the 12th Century and their legal practices, I think). And it's so damned early in the morning... Big hint: Look in the back of the reading for a summary. All the answers are there...
Prerequisite: English 12a or equivalent...
...balloon might drop into the sea, American rescue planes were sent up. But a breeze freshened, and the crew caught a dizzying glimpse of Ireland through the clouds as they crossed over the tiny port of Louisburgh in County Mayo. Once they had traversed Wales and crossed the English Channel to the French coast, the men on Double Eagle II found themselves the center of a flock of light airplanes and helicopters that whizzed by in salute and formed an honor guard to escort them the rest of the way. One plane carried the three balloonists' wives, who waved...
...Oklahoma, has managed to learn more than 100 hand sign-language symbols since the mid-'60s. At Yerkes, a sprightly female named Lana was tutored to communicate with her keepers in a language called Yerkish-a system of geometric symbols (squares, circles, lines, etc.) that stand for English words. By punching out these symbols, or lexigrams, as they are called, on a computer-monitored console, which displayed them on an overhead screen, Lana became skilled enough in Yerkish to say things like "Please machine give Lana juice." But not until now have such human-designed symbols been used...