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My favourite quotes
- Далеч сред степите безбрежни
- в порутен дом лежи дете.
- Навън виелицата снежна
- безкраен бял саван плете.
- Христо Смирненски (1898-1923)
- All great Peoples are conſervative; ſlow to believe in novelties; patient of much error in actualities; deeply and forever certain of the greatneſs that is in LAW, in Cuſtom once ſolemnly eſtabliſhed, and now long recogniſed as juſt and final.
- Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
- Le plus riche des hommes, c’est l’économe: le plus pauvre, c’est l’avare.
- Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maximes et pensées
Intereſting articles in diverſe language editions of Wikipedia which I peruſe in faſcination
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- Griechiſcher Plan
- малорусское наречие
- србохрвати (German verſion, abbreviated)
- Gothic and Old Norſe
Favourite ſpellings
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- indorſe in lieu of endorſe
- ſhew in lieu of ſhow
- ſmoulder
- marvellous
- burthen in lieu of burden
- a herb in lieu of
an herb
Uſeful dictionaries
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Etymologies to be aſcertained
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- Bulgarian беля (ſomething done amiſs, miſchief) and Old Norſe bǫl ( > Engliſh bale, baleful).
- French baraque, Bulgarian барака, Sumerian bárag (abode in a temple, dais) and Akkadian parakku.
- Old Norſe líta (“to ſee”), Gothic 𐍅𐌻𐌹𐍄𐍃 (wlits, “appearance, looks”) nd Bulgarian гледам (gledam), Ruſsian глядеть (gljadetʹ), Serbo-Croatian гледати (gledati).
- German Teil, Daniſh del and Bulgarian дял (part), Serbo-Croatian део.
- Gothic 𐍅𐌿𐌻𐌰𐌽 (wulan, “well up, boil over”), German wallen, Old Norse vella (“to wall over, boil”), Danish vælde (“gush”) on the one side, and Bulgarian вря (vrja, “to boil”) on the other.
- Slovenian božati (“to caress”), Slovak bozkať (“to kiss”), Bulgarian буза (buza, “cheek”), Latin basio (“I kiss”) ( > French bisou, bise).