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I think that there can be little doubt that this word , as used in the North Riding of Yorkshire for a square - cut section of a hay - mow or a hay - stack , owes its origin to Scandinavian influence , and is derived not from Du ...
I think that there can be little doubt that this word , as used in the North Riding of Yorkshire for a square - cut section of a hay - mow or a hay - stack , owes its origin to Scandinavian influence , and is derived not from Du ...
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I am unable to see the probability that tin derived its name from the Sanskrit kastira , because there are other objects which glitter much more than tin , with which people would be familiar before they were aware of the existence of ...
I am unable to see the probability that tin derived its name from the Sanskrit kastira , because there are other objects which glitter much more than tin , with which people would be familiar before they were aware of the existence of ...
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Two useful appendices are added , which deal with words derived from Norse and with words derived from Celtic respectively ; and the whole is concluded by a very good index . The main interest of the book is philological ; but there is ...
Two useful appendices are added , which deal with words derived from Norse and with words derived from Celtic respectively ; and the whole is concluded by a very good index . The main interest of the book is philological ; but there is ...
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ANCIENT ANIMALS of SOUTH AMERICA | 7 |
Every SATURDAY of any Bookseller or Newsagent | 20 |
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