The Quarterly Review, Volume 264, Issue 523John Murray, 1935 |
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Page 65
... words , even for ordinary household things , which his tongue has never been known to utter . Thus , he would like to persuade the stranger that a tramway is τρoxιódρoμos when no Greek in his senses calls it anything but rò rρáμ ; that ...
... words , even for ordinary household things , which his tongue has never been known to utter . Thus , he would like to persuade the stranger that a tramway is τρoxιódρoμos when no Greek in his senses calls it anything but rò rρáμ ; that ...
Page 70
... words of Turkish origin have evolved to a much smaller extent , so that the early Turkish vocabulary wherewith the Ghazi is systematically replacing the Persian and Arabic accretions will not sound unduly archaic in the ears of his ...
... words of Turkish origin have evolved to a much smaller extent , so that the early Turkish vocabulary wherewith the Ghazi is systematically replacing the Persian and Arabic accretions will not sound unduly archaic in the ears of his ...
Page 142
... word by its context . But some words cannot be guessed from their context and yet may be essential to the meaning . Hence four golden rules ( 1 ) Pronounce every name , newly introduced , with especial care and ( 2 ) change to a new ...
... word by its context . But some words cannot be guessed from their context and yet may be essential to the meaning . Hence four golden rules ( 1 ) Pronounce every name , newly introduced , with especial care and ( 2 ) change to a new ...
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