Word: ie
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selected to see that Britons should not, through hardening to voices in the air, fall into such malaproprieties as saying "acow-sticks" for "acoustics" "despick'-able" for "des'picable," "gu-raghe" for "ga'rage" "lie'aizon," "for leeay'zon" revelant" for "relevant" "Balon'ie" for "Bouloan' " (Boulogne), "charrabanks" for "sharabang" (as the British doggedly pronounce the French char-à-bancs...
...schoolboy who has chewed his pencil top ragged trying to decide between an el and an ie will be the first to favor Mr. Blaneo's suggestion. But those who have emerged from that untutored age usually take a craftsman's delight in puzzling out the jumble of vowels and consonants that represent primitive grunts and groans. Even if by simplification English could become the world's language a vigorous cry must be raised against such a process...
...decision written by Mr. Taft was: "But the law gives the person convicted of contempt in such a case the right to have the whole question on facts and law reviewed by three Judges of the Circuit Court of Appeals who have had no part in t>ie proceedings, and, if not successful in that court, to apply to this court for an opportunity for a similar review here...