Word: thees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Game, of course, the object was to beat the Bulldogs. This involved taunts shouted across thee field from both sides. The rivalry has not faded for alumni. Sigal said it has "pretty much been a constant over the years. I can't really say it's changed...
First, a few rules to live by. Don't fire up your modem if you're experiencing chest pains or some other medical emergency. Get thee to a hospital. Don't expect online doctors to diagnose the rash on your baby's bottom--that would be unethical, not to mention dangerous and probably illegal. Do find out who's sponsoring the site, how secure it is and what will become of your information. Double-check what you learn with your own health-care provider. And read the disclaimers...
...Viennensis was robust and energetic (this was the older choir of supporting tenors and basses who rounded out the four-part treble scale), the Vienna Choir Boys sounded withered and disengaged. They found Haydn's notes, but groped for his meaning. The boys sang the first line, "We praise thee, O God!" ambivalence nearer to pity than joy--and set a lackluster pattern for the remainder of the piece...
True, pronouns like "thee" and "thou" have basically disappeared from common usage. But as Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux says, "Language has a mind of its own...Changes can not be willed by people; they almost always arise unconsciously." In other words, those who might wish to introduce the pronoun "e" into common usage would almost certainly fail, just as feminists who have endorsed the new spelling of "womyn" have met with linguistic resistance...
...thee behind me, Derrida! Skeptical postmordernists may have reduced the certainties of Western intellectual life to a pile of gaudy plastic tchotchkes, but Pope John Paul II is fighting back. The pontiff on Thursday issued a 150-page papal encyclical urging a faith-centered approach to reason and challenging "doctrines which tend to devalue even the truths which had been judged certain...