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And in an amazing coincidence the wv for this post is 'gamen'.
If you could indulge me for a moment. LuLu 2008
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Ik houd het graag in de gaten, omdat ik het gevoel heb dat alle journalisten die over gamen schrijven, er te weinig inzicht in hebben.
I got tagged nathreee 2008
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This concerns images for the idle screen on a mobile phone, called 待ち受け画面, machi-uke gamen, in Japanese.
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The etymology of the word "backgammon" is disputed; it is probably Saxon -- _baec_, back, _gamen_, game; _i. e._ a game in which the players are liable to be sent back.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Besides, there are men of different sorts, and some are so made that they cannot be converted but by mirthful means, "by gamen and pley"; and such performances do them much good.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Nis hit bute gamen ⁊ glie of þat man mai here drie.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Wið þa pine ðe þer beoð. nelle ich eow naht leoȝen. nis hit bute gamen ⁊ gléo. eal þ̵ man mei hér dreoȝen.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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To gamble, says my dictionary, is "to play for money in games of skill or chance," and it adds the information that the word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon _gamen_, which means "a game".
If I May 1919
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IPhone-gaming komt op stoom - Met de nog snellere iPhone 3GS wordt het fijn mobiel gamen zoals met Doom Resurrection.
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IPhone-gaming komt op stoom - Met de nog snellere iPhone 3GS wordt het fijn mobiel gamen zoals met Doom Resurrection.
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