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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 comedic quirk of Mann's essay--written at a time when laughing back at Hitler still counted for something--is that Hitler is never named.
,” 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.
Macau, the final bastion of Portugal’s great 16th-century empire, is much more than just a quirk of history.
However, in fiddling with my keyboard I discovered that the italic form of æ (in Times New Roman at least) is almost indistinguishable from œ except with a magnifying glass—thus; œ, æ —so I can only assume you have been thwarted by a quirk of the computer!