Word: wording
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...place the University in a position to do the work that had originally been outlined for it. Mr. Gates left the city without intimating his opinion of the probability of Mr. Rockefeller approving the plans of the trustees, and the announcement just made was the first word that had been received in Chicago regarding Mr. Rockefeller's feelings in the matter. Mr. Rockefeller has already given $4,400,000 to Chicago University...
...corespondent which has been going on in the columns of the Nation with reference to the American use of the word "college" has given occasion for some very interesting quotations from the Harvard archives. In a letter which appears, in the current number, Mr. W. G. Brown of the University Library rejects the assertion that the word "College" as applied to a single building in the early records, was a dialectal use which sprang up in America. He quotes two items from an old inventory of the college property, dated twenty years after the founding. They refer...
...found in church and gentle, although they do not exist in modern French, are found in the French of the eleventh century. There are fewer silent consonants, too, in the older tongure. Final d in modern French is pronounced like t when followed by a word beginning with a vowel. In old French the spelling was made to conform with the pronunciation...
There were certain peculiarities in old French that the modern tongue does not possess, which brought the language nearer the English. The sound, as in thin, is an example. When we say faith we are reproducing almost exactly the old French word...
...grammar are very marked. Old French nouns had two cases, subject and object, descendants of the Latin nominative and accusative. As to number, very little distinction is made in modern French in speaking. In old French probably the plural was formed by s in the majority of cases. The word boeuf was pronounced bwef, and the plural bwes...