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Typical of the county is still the arbitrary pronounciation of the letters ee: sheep is often pronounced as ship and week as wick.
Fractionated DNA in gels was depurinated, denatured, and neutralized according to standard protocols [ 76 ] . DNA was transferred to positively charged nylon membranes (Hybond N +) (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Inc., Piscataway, NJ) by the wick transfer method using 20X SSC overnight.
Pickwick comes to us from the age of oil lamps: when the wick burned down too low to give a good flame, it had to be raised, often by use of a sharp-pointed instrument designed expressly to do that, a pickwick .
The bottom of each cylinder was closed with a polyethylene cap with two slits, where ends of a 1.3 × 23 cm (width × length) wick of absorbent paper were inserted.
A fat, black candle--melted firmly in place, wick still intact--sits atop the skull amid a puddle of congealed wax.