Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...better course than to adopt the pronunciation which according to sufficient evidence was, so far as any approximation can be made to a foreign tongue, really used by the Romans. We may be sure that a Roman could understand the words of the Latin play, though he might think they were spoken by a very barbarous people...
Chaucer's language has more French in it than this, and yet much less than is commonly taken for granted, and I think that one great reason for it is to be found in his different system of versification. His measures and rhymes and the greater nicety of ear demanded by them would lead him naturally to a choice of words which would give him a greater number of vowel-sounds and a greater variety of endings. Yet, if we take the beginning of the Romance of the Rose, which, being a translation from the French, would be as likely...
...things, I think, are clear: that it is impossible to put our finger upon the exact point of time when the speech of England became what we understand under the name English, and that a language existed as early as three centuries and a half after the Norman conquest which is perfectly comprehensible to us and which differs from our own only in being archaic...
...communication about Memorial suggests the difficulty, which a single waiter would have in serving eighteen men, as a practical objection to any increase, temporary or permanent, in the number of men at club tables. We do not think this is insurmountable. To be sure, two waiters at a table would largely increase the cost of board. On the other hand, it would be possible to add a small number of waiters for service at the club tables whose sole duty should be to keep the tables cleared of dishes that had been used; and, further, to have an increased number...
...think it only right, if the Directors should carry out some plan for accommodating a large number of men next year, that the Corporation should make some distinct pledge as to a new dining hall. The general table system was introduced at the request of the Corporation, being represented as a purely temporary matter-to continue only till the new hall was built. The pressure at Memorial has increased, the Corporation ask for still greater accommodations, but the new dining hall is as far off as ever, and the Corporation even say that there is no chance...