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... adding s to the forms of the active . But for this s the Old Icelandic has st , and in the earliest manuscripts sk , which is plainly the reflexive pronoun sik ( self , selves ) shortened and added to the active verb . Here , as in many ...
... adding s to the forms of the active . But for this s the Old Icelandic has st , and in the earliest manuscripts sk , which is plainly the reflexive pronoun sik ( self , selves ) shortened and added to the active verb . Here , as in many ...
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... added to the lan- guage , including not only technical and scientific terms by the thousand , but a multitude of words which belong to the common stock of literature and society . Words which have been retained have often lost their old ...
... added to the lan- guage , including not only technical and scientific terms by the thousand , but a multitude of words which belong to the common stock of literature and society . Words which have been retained have often lost their old ...
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... adding to the English vocabulary words adopted from the Latin and the Greek is still carried on with activity , and there is little prospect of its ceasing . It is almost necessary as a means of denoting those new objects , ideas , and ...
... adding to the English vocabulary words adopted from the Latin and the Greek is still carried on with activity , and there is little prospect of its ceasing . It is almost necessary as a means of denoting those new objects , ideas , and ...
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... added to the almost equal number which have come directly from that language , they make , perhaps , four fifths of all our borrowed words . Much smaller , though still considerable , especially in scientific use , is the number of ...
... added to the almost equal number which have come directly from that language , they make , perhaps , four fifths of all our borrowed words . Much smaller , though still considerable , especially in scientific use , is the number of ...
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... more subtile . The dis- criminations thus established have added much to the resources of the language , giving it a peculiar richness and delicacy of expression . THE ENGLISH , POOR IN FORMATION AND IN- FLEXION . THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 53.
... more subtile . The dis- criminations thus established have added much to the resources of the language , giving it a peculiar richness and delicacy of expression . THE ENGLISH , POOR IN FORMATION AND IN- FLEXION . THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE . 53.
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