Mr. Mao played him a recording of words that cannot be printed here.
Pope Francis has developed, in less than 12 months, an inspiring track record of words and deeds on this plague.
The task of a dictionary editor is two-fold: on the one hand to create a reliable record of word-use, and on the other to preserve the history, tradition, and experience of the language.
The first-known records of many words are in Shakespeare's plays, but it's not always clear which he invented and which were already commonplace.
These varying sources, which created differing community practices, were finally reconciled late in the 8th century by the legal scholar Abū ʿAbd Allāh ash-Shāfiʿī (767 820), who accorded the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad as preserved in eyewitness records of his words, actions, and approbations (the Hadith) normative and legal status second only to that of the Qurʾān.
Public figures, who cannot help displaying many of their best and worst qualities for all to see, and who leave abundant records of their words and actions, have always provided an attractive subject pool for personality researchers, stretching as far back as Freud, who analyzed the long-dead Leonardo da Vinci.
The most distinctive finds were ruins of well-built houses, along with cuneiform tablets with administrative records and lists of words, indicating a highly developed society already in being toward the end of the 4th millennium bc.
The Mongolian-Armenian wordlist of 55 words compiled by Kirakos of Gandzak (13th century) is the first written record of Mongolian words.
The problem with this is, of course, we cannot be sure that those writers actually invented these words -- they may merely have written the texts containing the earliest surviving record of the words in question.
Keyword searches were undertaken as simple pattern matches where the keyword sequence of characters was identified anywhere in the total free text record irrespective of word boundaries.
