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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Berkley (July 1, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0425190986
  • ISBN-13: 978-0425190982
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,983,318 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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a [Middle English] This indefinite article used as a determiner before nouns (as in a book) and expanded to an before vowels (as in an understanding) is the weak form of Old English and meaning 'one'. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
past participial stem, present participial stem, current senses date, expressing reversal, expressing intensive force, current sense dates, first recorded sense, unknown ultimate origin, first recorded meaning, early general sense, first used meaning, sgth century, semantic strands, lengthened stem, verb dates, late isth century, neuter past participle, common current sense, feminine past participle, noun dates, early aoth century, archaic past participle, early sense, early spelling, imitative origin
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Anglo-Norman French, West Germanic, Middle Dutch, Middle Enghsh, Old Enghsh, American English, Old None, Milton Paradise Lost, Scottish Gaelic, Shakespeare Henry, British English, Old High German, Christian Latin, Second World War, First World War, Shakespeare Hamlet, Sir Walter Scott, Roman Catholic Church, Shakespeare Richard, Old Irish, Christian Church, Middle High German, Old Noise, French Revolution, Shakespeare Merchant of Venice
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