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The transcriptions are, mercifully, what phoneticians call “broad,” which provide the basic information needed to be able to reproduce the pronunciation, as compared with “narrow,” in which detailed phonetic features are reflected that are useful for specialists but clutter up the field for ordinary users.
If I could not identify a missing word in a quotation, I marked that down to my own failing, one that was not likely to be remedied by looking it up in Bartlett , after which it would be promptly forgotten; mercifully, not all clues in puzzles are quotations, so some of them worked out; besides, the word that had to be supplied was usually a very common one and its only connection with the quotation was that it happended to appear in it, like be in To be or not to be.
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.
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.
Indeed, the market as perceived by Schleifer consists largely of educated adults and browsers of difficult words and word lovers of all sorts: relatively short shrift is given to high school and college students, and, mercifully, no mention at all is made of those who might have been sold on the promise of a better life--or a better after-life, or perhaps a better half-life--through the acquisition of an expanded vocabulary.
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