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Panzini, Alfredo
(Encyclopedia) Panzini, AlfredoPanzini, Alfredoälfrĕˈdō päntsēˈnē [key], 1863–1939, Italian novelist and lexicographer; pupil of Giosuè Carducci. He taught in secondary schools. His genial, popular…Robert the Devil
(Encyclopedia) Robert the Devil, hero of a medieval legend. He was sold to the devil by his mother before his birth but upon discovering the fact did penance and was able to purify himself of his…dictionary
(Encyclopedia) dictionary, published list, in alphabetical order, of the words of a language. In monolingual dictionaries the words are explained and defined in the same language; in bilingual…The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce The Devil's DictionaryContentsAuthor's PrefaceABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZThe Devil's Dictionary: Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce DICTATORDIEDICTIONARY -n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful…The Devil's Dictionary: T
by Ambrose Bierce SUT T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called tau. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period,…The Devil's Dictionary: U
by Ambrose Bierce TVUUBIQUITYUGLINESSULTIMATUMUN-AMERICANUNCTIONUNDERSTANDINGUNITARIANUNIVERSALISTURBANITYUSAGEUXORIOUSNESSThe Devil's Dictionary: V
by Ambrose Bierce UWVVALORVANITYVIRTUESVITUPERATIONVOTEThe Devil's Dictionary: W
by Ambrose Bierce VXW W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, the names of the others being monosyllabic. This advantage of the Roman alphabet over the…The Devil's Dictionary: X
by Ambrose Bierce WYX X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the…Trending
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