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Casus (n.pl.) belli
See footnote 3: "Yes, the plural of 'casus' is 'casus'."
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/the-worlds-largest-sandbox/?ref=opinion
The other two Borderlines comments are also interesting--when I was young I was ( Read more... ) -
Hostilities between the scorbutic youth and the gentleman in the sanguine shirt
'I request that you'll favour me with your card, sir,' said Mr Noddy ( Read more... ) -
Horrid, your Wash-up
"At this sally another special laughed, and then tried to look so supernaturally solemn, that the magistrate detected him immediately ( Read more... ) -
Alleluia
Christos anesti! -
Cake and Criticism
"We do not find what supports or shapes the text without slicing the cake. Once that is done, we see two layers distinct from each other except that the line of demarcation between them is very blurred. The bottom layer is made up of facts, the top, of general, defining concepts. These concepts determine the relevance of the facts. For once a ( Read more... ) -
Finalized holiday dates
London: 22, 34, 24, and 25 Dec
Belfast: 26 and 27 Dec
Edinburgh: 28 and 29 Dec
London: 30 and 31 Dec -
London libraries
I will be in London over Christmas (probably something like 20 Dec-2 Jan) this year, trying to join fun with reading for next term ( Read more... ) -
Quoted
"Universities share one characteristic with compulsive gamblers and exiled royalty: there is never enough money to satisfy their desires."
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Supererogatory works
"It is so obvious that the Picts were not going to be content with part of a king (Bede 28.21) and that even the wives of soldiers who have been on active service for fifteen years do not need all other men to achieve satisfaction (Or. 44.21) that it was supererogatory to point it out by grammatical means."
Bruce Mitchell, Old English Syntax (Vol ( Read more... ) -
More quoting
"He went down to dinner and, propping The Anatomy of Melancholy against the cruet, deplored the twentieth century, but found the chicken rather particularly good."
Compton Mackenzie, Sinister Street