Word: paleontologus
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...course of time, the Regulative Faculty was subdivided into the Discursive, Elaborative, and Comparative. What was the special function of all these, and who invented the nomenclature, is not clearly known. About the Discursive only is there no doubt. The originator was Paleontologus. This man, as his name denotes, was a Greek. He came to England, and adopted it as his paternal land, but could never master the language. There was one word which offered a special difficulty. He could never pronounce Niagara, like other people, but called it to the last Ni-a-ga-ra. However, he is best...
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