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Perhaps we are grumpier than usual because the two-volume Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme, Verbatim Books, (which is more comprehensive than A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language , by Quirk, Greenbaum, et al.), and VERBATIM itself are omitted from the section called Suggestions for Further Reading.
The other quirk is that over the past year, eBay's stock price has not really moved much (although it did jump 12 percent in the wake of this latest earnings report).
This relationship--known in genetics as "pleiotropy"--seems to be completely accidental, a quirk of evolution.
Finally, a modern quirk, is the rare AB, people who are somewhat confused, edgy, sensitive, yet charismatic.
,” mind you), whose name does not ring the bells in my head that are (w)rung by names like Marilyn Monroe, Margaret Thatcher, and Marie, Queen of Rumania, is identified as “the” model, as if she were being distinguished from the Rachael Garley who succeeded Sir Randolph Quirk as president of the British Academy and that other Rachael Garley whom we all know to be the (not “a”) power behind Boris Yeltsin or Saddam Husein.