Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will hold a boxing meeting during the third week in December, in the Club gymnasium. Manager John Graham desires to arrange a half-dozen good bouts and would like to hear from the well-known amateurs. Good prizes will be given. The club will also hold invitation athletic meetings for Harvard and Tech athletes the first and second weeks in December. On Jan. 18, the big boxing meeting will be held in Mechanics Hall. There will probably be nine bouts with all New England pitted against Chicago, Pittsburg and Cleveland. The big athletic meeting will be held...
...outside changes as English. The effects of the language of the Franks on French were not so deep and lasting as those of French on English. The name Romance, often applied to the French, Italian and Spanish tongues, shows their origin. Romance comes from the adverb romanice, to speak like the romans. Bearing in mind this historical continuity of language, it is correct to say that Latin is at present spoken in the streets of Paris...
...great an extent in the French of the eleventh century. The u sound did exist then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike the first two letters of wet. Mute edid exist, but was invariably pronounced. The old French pronunciation for un and une may have been une for the former and une for the latter...
Beside the open and closed sound of e, as in modern French, there was still a third sound in old French, about which we can only theorize. It may have been like one of the other two except in length...
...similar variations. The English sounds of ch and g, as found in church and gentle, although they do not exist in modern French, are found in the French of the eleventh century. There are fewer silent consonants, too, in the older tongure. Final d in modern French is pronounced like t when followed by a word beginning with a vowel. In old French the spelling was made to conform with the pronunciation...