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...Mont Folik (real name: Mont Follick), 70, wuntym (1945-55) Inglish Laboryt M.P. hu twys introdust bils dezynd tu reform fonetekli dhe speling ov dhe Inglish langwij, inventor ov a sirkular rotating tuthbrsh, wuntym Inglish profesor at dhe Universiti ov Madrid and Sekretri tu dhe lat Aga Ron; in London. Follick's first bill lost by just three votes. During the debate, a Tory M.P. wondered if Follick proposed to spell water u-o-o-r-t-e-r, pointed out that "some Cockneys say wa'er and Americans say watter, but how do the Scotsmen...
...ov was now an incident in the taking of Košice, along the spine of the Carpathians in eastern Slovakia. Before Prešov, General Ivan Petrov had opened up in the orthodox manner, bracketing the slopes with shells as if in preparation for attack. But he sent a large column to cut in behind the enemy, over a mountain trail. He knew the trail would be heavily mined, that his men would take losses. They did. They also took Prešov...
...Fairbanks scale were used in every general store, post office and coal yard. Their accuracy was proverbial. Huge freight car scales were supposed to respond to the weight of a wandering chicken. In 1876 Josh Billings described a school mistress as "precise in everything, az a pair ov Fairbanks' improved platform scales...
Birds. With 8,000 barnyard birds clucking & crowing, with poultry experts from 61 nations present, H. R. H. the Duke of York opened the World Poultry Congress at London amid so many sounds that his ov,n slight stutter passed unnoticed. Aged 34 and father of one, H. R. H. genially inspected and praised "The Grandmother of English Hens," a venerable bird just seven years his junior. Red jungle fowl from India passed Royal muster as "a species believed to be direct descendants of the ancestors of all barnyard fowl...
...insted ov "penton building" giv street and numbr. hwat ar street and numbr for? yw sym tw concede that klevlnd, owhayow wil nevr by enytin mowrn a kontry vilidz...