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Provers Which One Quotes Daily Life and Modern Speech
A collage from Detroit News style snippets contrasts ordinary speech and daily occupations with social roles. It notes how jargon and phrases reflect petty pursuits, from judges to bakers, policemen, and barbers, while touching on Livonia’s Livs and a tale of spiders aiding early engineering work in the Panama Canal and observatories.
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Detroit News
Goethals
Panama Canal
Royal Observatory
London