Charles Sykes, R.A., had his first experience of Rolls-Royce motoring in a ``Silver Ghost,'' and he was so moved [oh, felicitous expression!] by the effortless grace of the car's performance that he immediately returned to his studio and put his conception of it into concrete form. ...
Parisus, Turici, et Vindobonae, and no, I don't plan to convert those genitives back to nominatives). The front cover (of the first volume, which is all I've seen of the first edition) was full of the names of all of the important people who didn't actually write the book. ...
Maybe they just meant formarum instead of specierum! Okay, that's enough, let's do a different entry. Sp. Latin, Spurius. A praenomen, typically abbreviated when writing the full tria nomina. Also ``S,'' which it gets instead of Servius (Ser.) or Sextus (Sex.). Spurius means...
(Cubre is the form for other conjugations. In particular cubre la cama can be the command `cover the bed' as well as the observation `it covers the bed,' but in no case does it have a gender.) In Spanish, the plural pops up occasionally where non-native speakers wouldn't expect ...
(This was presumably related to the fact that West Berliners were encouraged to boycott the S-Bahn, which was part of the East German railway system.) On the other three lines crossing the border, almost all of the stations in East Berlin were closed. At these "ghost stations," the ...
Full title: Ägyptische Urkunden aus den königlichen Museen zu Berlin herausgegeben von der Generalverwaltung: Griechische Urkunden. `Egyptian documents [on papyrus] from the royal museums at Berlin, published by the general administration: Greek [language] documents.' Cf. BKT. BGU is the lo...
``Northern Ireland Railways was founded in 1968 to operate the railway services of the former Ulster Transport Authority, which in turn had taken over the three private railways (Great Northern Railway, Northern Counties Railway and Co. Down Railway) in Northern Ireland between 1948 and 1957.''...
(Interesting, and not really surprising, that filius is one of those words with a distinctive vocative form differing from the nominative: fili. For more on that, see the entry for Brute.) In Latin, a filius terrae, literally `a son of the earth,' is an expression meaning `a nobody'...
GFR may have been an American band, but their group name was an allusion to a Canadian railroad, the Grand Trunk Railway. GFRP Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic. GFS Gordon Food Service. GFT Geographical Full-Time. I think that means ``full-time when you count together the different ...
it's a different set of rails and cars. The term el may have been used for a while to refer to the stations or railway corridors of the old el system, or loosely to the service that replaced them, but today the term ``elevated subway'' is widespread for the elevated lines that run...