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1 XXI |              Every word is either current, or strange, or metaphorical,
2 XXI |      contracted, or altered.~By a current or proper word I mean one
3 XXI |        may be at once strange and current, but not in relation to
4 XXI |      lance," is to the Cyprians a current term but to us a strange
5 XXII|           is that which uses only current or proper words; at the
6 XXII| expression, and replace it by the current or proper term, the truth
7 XXII|       phrases are not part of the current idiom that they give distinction
8 XXII|           in prose. These are the current or proper, the metaphorical,
9 XXV |     expression is language—either current terms or, it may be, rare