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  • The distinction between "will" and "shall" was first proposed in 1653 by John Wallis in a book—oddly, written in Latin—called "Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae."

    Grappling Grammarians Barton Swaim 2011

  • Barton Swain notes that "the distinction between 'will' and 'shall' was first proposed in 1653 by John Wallis in a book—oddly, written in Latin—called 'Grammatica Linguae Anglicanae.'"

    It's Hard to Tell Shall and Will Apart 2011

  • Chuck Jones, a librarian at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, compares the two comically like this: Thesaurus Linguae Etruscae 445EUR = $630 = a dollar a page with enough left over to bind it.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Chuck Jones, a librarian at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, compares the two comically like this: Thesaurus Linguae Etruscae 445EUR = $630 = a dollar a page with enough left over to bind it.

    Want data on Etruscan inscriptions? It'll cost you dearly. 2009

  • The foundations of dictionary typography were laid by the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne (1498–1559), who printed the Thesaurus Linguae Latina (1531) and the Dictionnaire François–Latin (1539) Figure 2.

    Not Just a Pretty Face: The Contribution of Typography to Lexicography Paul Luna 2009

  • The foundations of dictionary typography were laid by the Parisian scholar-printer Robert Estienne (1498–1559), who printed the Thesaurus Linguae Latina (1531) and the Dictionnaire François–Latin (1539) Figure 2.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Paul Luna 2009

  • A very different affair was the Lapsus Linguae from the Edinburgh University Magazine.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • Lapsus Linguae; or, the College Tatler; and on the 7th the first number appeared.

    Lay Morals 2005

  • Tressilian mustered his learning to reply, “Linguae latinae haud penitus ignarus, venia tua, Domine eruditissime, vernaculam libentius loquor.”

    Kenilworth 2004

  • In some also, it may be though rarely the Drinesse of the Tongue; which likewise maketh it lesse apt to move, as well as Cold; For it is an Affect that it cometh to some Wise and Great Men; as it did unto Moses, who was Linguae Praepeditae of tangled tongue; And many Stutters we finde are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the tongue.

    Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995

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