Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linguistics displayed a language-translation system with a vocabulary of over 17,000 French words. A voice synthesizer hooks up to the computer and "speaks" the French or English sentence...
PENN at LEHIGH--After spending all weekend studying the Puritans in English 70, I have no tolerance for Quakers: Lehigh 23, Penn...
...English Puritans who settled Massachusetts and established their capital seat at Boston were not known for their solicitude towards the Bishop of Rome. Themselves heirs of the English Reformation, their memories of the Papacy and the Marian persecutions were annotated by the standard work found in all of their libraries, John Fox's Acts and Monuments, commonly called The Book of Martyrs. First published in 1563 in English, The Book of Martyrs with its vivid, even lurid accounts of the sufferings unto death of Protestant martyrs at the hands of the Church of Rome and Bloody Mary served to remind...
...stay. Between socializing and vocalizing, Pavarotti jetted to Los Angeles for one of his periodic jousts with Johnny Carson on the Tonight show. When he had free time, he took to the tennis court. A surprisingly graceful Gargantua, he is quick on his feet and gets about as much English on the tennis ball as he does into his conversation. "I gave him the toilet paper," he said of one opponent, meaning that he took him to the cleaner...
...English companies provided a pair of bittersweet surprises for the U.S. last week, both involving venerable names, one American and one British...