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Mértola bursts with history: Its church, the Igreja Matriz, betrays a previous incarnation as a mosque with a prayer niche (mihrab), while the town hall (now a museum) is constructed on Roman foundations.
But in a chapter entitled—make that titled— Americanisms, the manual betrays both an unseemly nationalistic bias and an ignorance of the history of its own language.
The ignorance surrounding the Tasmanian languages betrays the fact that the relationships between convicts and later settlers and the Tasmanian Aborigines were of a hostility unreached elsewhere; the continuing fertility of Nyungar by contrast results from a much happier and more accommodating relationship.
Thus the French île reminds us that the word was once spelled isle , from Latin insula; the name of the eight month, Août , reminds us that it came from the Latin augustus; and être betrays its origins as Latin esse with the same orthographical scar.
Malcolm cannot resist her--he has a sweet tooth that forever betrays him--but he finds her oxymoronic style hard to bear.
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