Example sentences for: hodges

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  • I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).

  • For data that are not normally distributed, Steel's Many-one Rank Test can be much more efficient (Hodges and Lehmann, 1956).

  • Incidentally, the reviewer of A Dictionary of First Names , by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, is wrong to state that “they choose to ignore Hugo .” They don't: it is included as a variant of Hugh .

  • Waterstone’s and Hodges Figgis (of Ulysses fame), are across the street from each other in Dawson Street.


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