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Letter: Letters : Lastly

Published 31 January 1998

From James Hill

East Kilbride

Nils Grande’s Oxbridge dons
(Letters, 13 December, p 57) are surely
accustomed to dispute in Latin. The Latin for “tenthly” would be
denique, but this has come to mean “lastly”. So all arguments must cease at
this point.

Issue no. 2119 published 31 January 1998

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