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...beach" at Dunkirk, went into Burma, the Middle East, North Africa and Italy, became Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. He did his work well and modestly and did not rush his memoirs into print afterwards. "If he had," a fellow general once said, "the personal pronoun would never appear...
There are other things, little things, that count. Some Frenchmen continue to address adult Vietnamese in the familiar "tu"-a pronoun which in French is reserved for children, intimates and riffraff. This habit could be uprooted with slight effort...
...neuter pronoun," shouted Connally. ". . . Mr. President, allow me to say to the Senator from Missouri that he has a regular FBI intellect. He probes into these matters and imagines boogers in every bush. There are no boogers here...
...pronoun is not likely to embarrass many U.S. gatherings. The American Book of Common Prayer and most Protestant denominations use the "who" as does the American Revised Standard version. More likely source of confusion: the Catholic version ends after "deliver us from evil...
...complained: "Our maid-of-all-work in [the profanity] department is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudge does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah . . . Put the second person pronoun and the adjective old in front of it and scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon. Worse, it is frequently toned down to s.o.b. ... In Standard Italian there are no less than forty congeners of son-of-a-bitch, and each and every...