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The conservative Daily Telegraph of London said Monday in an editorial that the decommissioning of arms has not begun because Sinn Fein "knows that its power derives from violence and the threat of violence, and so it does not want to sacrifice that power."
Its name derives from the presence of three PPPPG amino acid repeats that are conserved across species.
Incidentally, the name “Devil’s Hole” derives from the sound of the seawater entering and leaving the hole, rather than from the fearsome reputation of some of its inhabitants.
In the same piece, he traces savvy to Portuguese, which might be correct, but Mencken's American Language derives it from the Spanish sabe . Professor Kaye's nuance word is, at a guess, a suggestion from a word-processor's spelling checker which was derailed by nonce word .
Primerole probably derives from the Old French primier `first,' with the diminutive suffix - ole , implying smallness.