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As a precautionary measure I consulted the menu, and there my eye fell on the vermicelles . I explained to my companions that this must be pasta, a kind of Continental macaroni (in those days macaroni was about the only kind of pasta you ever saw in England, if we mercifully forget the incredible invention of spaghetti on toast).
7. There are lengthy usage notes and synonym studies in W that do not appear in L at all or in greatly abbreviated form, sometimes mercifully so, for W occasionally succumbs to prolixity.
The second chapter of the Handbook is devoted in its entirety to The Pronoun Problem, mercifully concluding with the expression of some doubt that an artificial generic pronoun, like hir, thon, per , and other abominations, is likely to take hold.
Founded in 1781 with a total of 46 inhabitants, most of whom were Native Americans, its name was mercifully shortened over time to — you guessed it — Los Angeles.
Bryant is succeeded, mercifully, by Hutchinson, who argues the case for obstruction of justice.