Word: ou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?' (But where are the snows of yesteryear?) "Here is your chance. This is where you go to town. Seize the nitwit by the scruff of the neck, march him out to the snow gauge and shout: " 'Right in that bucket, you fool!' "I'll bet you'll feel pretty good after that." O'Nolan knows well that the funda mental internal policy of his Government is the revival of Irish language and Irish culture. He speaks and writes Irish accurately and fluently, but he is willing...
Nevertheless, he managed to outlive by four years the friar who was to have succeeded him. Father Joseph's death snatched Richelieu away from the theater. "Ou est mon appui?" cried Richelieu, "j'ai perdu mon appui...
...Ou est Gamelin? asked Frenchmen last week on the boulevards of Paris and in the wineshops of Auvergne as under a new leader French Armies regrouped themselves along the Somme. Maurice Gustave Gamelin, once acknowledged "the world's foremost soldier," had seen his theories of stand-and-take-it warfare ground beneath the tread of German tanks and blasted into extinction by Nazi dive-bombers. While his predecessor and successor Maxime Weygand sweated under the gigantic task of constructing a new front, the morbidly curious speculated on the fate of the former generalissimo...
...Museum at Honolulu; it is valued at a million dollars. It took 100 years to make such a cloak. Only feathers of a certain texture, color and length were used; one from under each wing of the o-o or mamo birds, one from the head of the male ou...
Southern speech was less well liked than that of Boston but more easily guessed. But the listeners had practically no luck in trying to tell one Southern dialect from another. Nevertheless there are distinct regional differences in Southern accent, apparent to a trained ear. A Virginian pronounces ou sounds with a quick upward-looping inflection, so that "out" sounds like "a-oot." A North Carolinian may leave out the r's in "carry," but he puts a heavy r in certain other words. He says "Yes urr no" instead of "Yes uh no," as most Southerners would...