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A.-S.

abbreviation for

  1. Anglo-Saxon.


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It was formerly spelled s-v-a-s-t-i-c-a and s-u-a-s-t-i-k-a, but the later spelling, both English and French, is s-w-a-s-t-i-k-a.

As if anything can be 100% perfect—though A. S. comes awfully near it!

"T-a-s-t-e and s-e-e," cried the man who had fallen down, hiccuping.

Den I jes put her down e-a-s-y on de hath-rug, fo de fire, en kiver her up wid a shawl.

The first which they offer, and that most usually accepted as the true one, is the A.-S.

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