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But all the papers fail to explain how a storm qualifies as a hurricane (once its top sustained winds pass 74 mph) as well as the quaint method by which tropical storms and hurricanes are named (an alphabetical system that starts over each year with a name beginning with "A" and is planned years in advance, so that we already know that the first such storm of 2002 in the Atlantic region will be called Arthur, the second Bertha, and the eighth Hortense).
After some searching, it can be found in Webster's Third . Rusine is not listed in its alphabetical place, but if you look for it where it should be, you're bound to see the entry for rusine antler , at which rusine is etymologized as being from New Latin rusa + English - ine . If it then occurs to you to look up rusa , you'll find rusine as an undefined runon.
Moreover, if it is deemed advisable to have the names in alphabetical order to make it easy to find a given street, it would be a simple matter to put Karachi Street between Istanbul and Lisbon Streets, Bach Boulevard between Jerusalem and Copland Boulevards followed by Debussy .
The entries are arranged in alphabetical order by the first Russian letter.
The thinking behind that may be the same as that of another author I recently came across, responsible for a little Dictionary of House Names . When I pointed out mildly that it was usual for a dictionary to be in alphabetical order, she said that with such an arrangement readers would merely look for their own house name in the bookshop, and then not bother to buy the book.
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