Does anyone know just when during the 17th century the word «imprimatur» began to be employed for this purpose in the printing of books ? I ask because I happen to be re-reading Galileo Galilei's Dialogo sopra i duei massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano , published in Firenze in 1632, ...
... At the conclusion of the third time this word was the last word in the rendition: "Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem, sepiternam". (Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, -give him/her rest, eternally".) Not that, possessing neither the requisite co...
I should certainly like to hear that particular Texas accent - it would put Mr Bush and his «noocular» right in the shade !... Henri PS : Flam , the Surgeon General - and a lot of other people besides - say that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health ! Can't you consider taking up a different hob...
After reading on your «different place», Flam, that most of its readers will have guessed that «Tsemer Pladah» refers to steel wool, I came to the reluctant conclusion that I lacked the requisite intellectual qualifications, and crossed it off my list. So can it go !...
... the difference between two contemporary systems -- the public school system in my suburban county (and other suburban counties) versus the public school system in Baltimore City, the latter of which seems to have the need to dumb down the definitions of noun and verb for all middle school stude...
The impression I get from the entry in Diccionario de la lengua española is that this particular usage is a late import from the French, the pronunciation and orthography of which was affected by a similarity with an earlier import from Latin. The b/v mix up in Spanish might possibly have facilitate...
The impression I get from reading the material to which you kindly provide a link, BD , is that there exists some evidence for Latin « virus » as both a 2nd and a 4th declension noun, but that - as I had understood previously - there is no evidence for plural forms. Interesting also to note a tenden...
... Just as a Norwegian chooses [t] and [d], when they would have a choice of their native [s] and [z]? ... Not quite. Sibilants are unvoiced in modern Scandinavian languages (with the possible exception of Icelandic, or Farœic which retain, of course, traces of a much older phonetic system and abo...