Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Italy has thrown its seventeen universities open to women. Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Holland have taken like action. The Sarbonae of France admit women, as do also the highest schools of medicine and surgery in Russia...
...denote a florid, pompous manner of writing"; "from this ardor," too, "springs a pronunciation unusually rapid," contracting "two short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still linger among...