"The phrase — unnatural, forced and heretofore unused in the English language — suggests something confined to boudoirs or bathrooms," wrote the columnist, Karen Heller.
Cope muses about making plans available online (they're a bit more complicated than they look), but the real power of the objects isn't so much in duplication as in inspiration: here is something new, practical and aesthetically pleasing that could start a conversation about the visual language of unused property -- not just in one city but all over the place.
The letter v is unused (except in spelling foreign languages, languages of minority nationalities, and some dialects), despite a conscious effort to distribute letters more evenly than in Western languages.
From Shah Shuja's own memoir, unused by any English-language account, he draws a picture of Afghanistan's tribal and personal rivalries, and of Shah Shuja's own tortuous relations with the Sikhs and the British, at once more vivid and persuasive than any previous account.
Along the beach, notices in several languages say: "All unused food and packaging must be put in the garbage container.
Democrats accused Republicans of secretly trying to reduce immigration by pointing to a provision that eliminated another visa program, based on a lottery, and language that prevented any unused STEM visa slots from being transferred to another visa category.
She hopes to turn an unused farmyard complex into a country branch of her language school and, while she's at it, fix Alfred up with a colleague of hers, a "thoroughly nice woman" who's a scholar to boot.
The practice of donating unused military equipment to local governments began in 1997, when language creating a program for it was included in an otherwise unremarkable Defense Department budget authorization.
