Word: mssweoney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person of ordinary intelligence could suppose that the writer of any such message would put the possessive pronoun before the British Queen and omit it from Abraham Lincoln passes understanding. It is, however, true that the error is having a wonderful run. The Hon. Edward F. MsSweoney has, in a studied oration, alluded to the recreant attitude of people who refer to the late Empress of India as "our Queen Victoria." The Cambridge city council has resoluted against it, and from one end of the state to the other the changes will ring upon this transposition for some time...
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