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"Nice guys finish seventh" : false phrases, spurious sayings, and familiar misquotations
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Nonii Marcelli peripatetici Tiburticensis Compendiosa doctrina ad filium de proprietate sermonum
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Dictionary of Latin words used by authors of the Roman Republic, compiled by the Roman grammarian, Nonius Marcellus. De compendiosa doctrina consists of lists of words, their definitions, and quotations of authors using those words. Originally there were 20 chapters; the sixteenth is now lost. The first 12 chapters deal with grammar and style; in the final eight, words are arranged by subject matter such as clothing ("De genere vel colore vestimentorum"), weapons ("De genere armorum"), and food ("De genere ciborum et potuum").
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"Words are not only letters, their order and their space are as important to make words possible. The book shows this idea by setting all of each of the different letters of the poem on a separate page in order to appreciate the space they occupy in the word and on the page. The poem refers with its own words to the importance of this concept"--Artist's statement.
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Letter from Milton to Olive
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A letter written by a child named Milton in Lowell, Massachusetts, to someone named Olive, possibly a playmate or relative. The first page of the letter contains twenty small hieroglyphic drawings combined with individual letters to create words or phrases, also known as rebus puzzles. The author talks about his penmanship, a previous letter that was damaged, and material his parents are making for a fair.
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