Stanes

This is a reversion of the opposite linguistic vowel shift by which Anglo-Saxons and modern residents of Solon, Ohio pronounce as “Stanes” the word now pronounced “Stones”.

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‘Something awful has happened,’ he said, ‘and I’d rather talk to you than Stanes.

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‘Meanwhile,’ continued Stanes, ‘I don’t mind answering both your questions.

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‘Something awful has happened,’ he said, ‘and I’d rather talk to you than Stanes.

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Stanes added carelessly: ‘So you think the thing the criminal wanted was …’

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At the same instant Stanes again rang a bell, with a long strident steady ringing; and the little man with the glass eye was propelled or shot along the corridor after the fugitive, with something of the rotatory motion of a mechanical figure in a zoetrope.

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Stanes smoked reflectively, knocked out his ash, and rang a bell on the table before him.

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‘And yet,’ said Stanes, looking across with a glitter in his grey-green eyes, ‘you do rather think that I also am a mystery.’

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He fancied he understood Stanes at last, and he liked to collect queer people who were difficult to understand.

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Stanes called twice to the man within, before that person seemed to complete his original gesture by coming out on to the doorstep; then the two held a brief colloquy, ending in the nobleman carrying his suitcases upstairs, and the other coming out into full daylight and revealing the heavy shoulders and peering head of young Henry

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