Word: wet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Associated Press Despatch last night said that the cricket match between Harvard and the Philadelphia Cricket Club was not played yesterday on account of wet grounds...
...College Nine played three of the four games scheduled for the recess, winning from the Haverhill team and losing to Fall River and Springfield. The game scheduled with Bangor for Wednesday, April 22, was cancelled on account of wet grounds...
...five mile road race has been further postponed to Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 4 p. m. The roads were still too wet and soft yesterday and it is hoped that tomorrow the ground will be dry enough to ensure a satisfactory race...
...wet field and long grass were responsible for much of the fumbling and slipping, but nevertheless both quarterbacks were much to blame for the poor work. Beale was just as slow as ever...
...then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike the first two letters of wet. Mute edid exist, but was invariably pronounced. The old French pronunciation for un and une may have been une for the former and une for the latter...