Word: oi
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Desire to amend the Constitution.- (1) To provide for the election of President, Vice-President and Senators by popular vote: Party Platform, World's Almanac, 1892, p. 88.- (2) Election of United States Judges for a limited time by popular vote: Pol. Sci. 2, VI, 302.- (3) Abolition oi all appointive offices and filling them by popular vote. ibid: Alliance Advocate, 6 Nov., 1890.- (4) All offices, including Presidency, to be held for but one term; ibid.- (b) Desire governmental ownership of means of communication, railroads, telephones and telegraphs: World's Almanac, 1893, p. 84.- (c) Public lands...
...apparent diphthongs in modern French, ai, ei, eu, ou and au, were pronounced separately in old Frence. Exception must be made in this case to au, for it does not appear in old writings, although it may have existed in speech. The sound oi, which seems so eminently English, is in reality of old French origin...