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Skeat does, indeed, in his last and longest note (I mean the one in the Cambridge Review ) go into the question as to how it came to pass that the a in Cambridge is pronounced long as in came --a point which I had not considered--and he also differs from me in attributing, without any apparent evidence, the change of the Gr of Granta into the C of Canta to the Anglo-French scribes of the twelfth century; for I was, and am still, disposed to attribute it, in part at least, to the undoubted confusion between the old forms of Cambridge and of Canterbury which I have pointed out in both my notes.
Pan Am 103 became a cautionary tale against rushing to judgment in attributing responsibility for a terrorist act.
To mystify solvers even more, puzzlers may use words in an uncommon but perfectly legitimate sense, especially by attributing to certain words ending in -er the quality of agent noun.
5) For a man who takes his own cogitations extremely seriously, Krugman is remarkably cavalier about attributing motives and beliefs to others.
The Post piece on Middle East repercussions depicts Netanyahu attributing the current situation to Arafat, quoting him saying that "Arafat must make a choice" about whether he wants his country to "behave like a terror-sponsoring entity."