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... sincerely D. W. SMITH ' Host of letters ' is quite right . My friend Mrs Mary Large , who farms in the east of England ( near Lincoln ) , where farms are indeed largely arable , told me that the usual term there is ' second cut ' . But ...
... sincerely D. W. SMITH ' Host of letters ' is quite right . My friend Mrs Mary Large , who farms in the east of England ( near Lincoln ) , where farms are indeed largely arable , told me that the usual term there is ' second cut ' . But ...
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... certainly not agree with him that ' the Greek bos means " ox " or " heifer " : there is no such word in Greek as bos , which is Latin . The Greek form is bous , which survives in our word ' boustrophedon ' . Yours sincerely DAVID 14.
... certainly not agree with him that ' the Greek bos means " ox " or " heifer " : there is no such word in Greek as bos , which is Latin . The Greek form is bous , which survives in our word ' boustrophedon ' . Yours sincerely DAVID 14.
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... sincerely GORDON J. H. PONT Northampton Dear Mr SilverLIGHT , Fifty years ago at school we studied Lays of Ancient Rome , by Macaulay : By the nine gods he swore it , And named a trysting day , etc. , etc. We all thought of a tryst as a ...
... sincerely GORDON J. H. PONT Northampton Dear Mr SilverLIGHT , Fifty years ago at school we studied Lays of Ancient Rome , by Macaulay : By the nine gods he swore it , And named a trysting day , etc. , etc. We all thought of a tryst as a ...
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