Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Norman introduction is also very small. Chaucer shows the tendency of the two dialects of court and country to coalesce and form a new language. The almost contemporary poem of Piers Ploughman, written for popular effect, is Anglo-Saxon in the form of its metre, and shows but slight traces of French in its diction. The vision opens thus...
There is another way in which a Latin play is instructive. Ancient poetry was a thing entirely distinct from anything which we call by that name in English. English syllables have essentially no length, though we do have a slight tendency to lengthen the accented syllables. This is the forest primeval, etc., is not dactylic in any real sense, nor is Twinkle, twinkle, little star trochaic. In fact, we could hardly write trochees or dactyls at all in English, certainly not so that one would recognize them as such without being told. Two-syllable feet are Pyrrhics and three-syllabled...
...potato race was close and exciting, E. H. Clark '96, winning by a slight lead over F. Mason '96, who took second. There were only four contestants...
...unknown author of "A Crime" has done well in his description of a murderer impelled by consciousness of petty wrongs done him, and perhaps also by a slight insanity, which the whole tone of the story suggests...
...ninety-four crew has shown slight improvement over the work of the first of the rowing season. The time of the crew, as a whole, is fair, and it is hoped that this will improve still further under the coaching of Storrow, captain of the '89 crew...