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Georgia Bailey Frost St. Paul, Minn. Ut tertius-annus discipulus linguae Latinae, credo ut haec vetus lingua Romanorum sit magnum auxilium ad discendum English.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reminded that technically the war was over for Russia, Kisselev confessed a "lapsus linguae."

From Time Magazine Archive

Mores autem Scotorum secundum diversitatem linguarum variantur; duabus enim utuntur linguis, Scotica videlicet, et Teutonica; cujus linguae gens maritimas possidet et planas regiones: linguae vero gens Scoticae montanas inhabitat, et insulas ulteriores.

From An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Rait, Robert S.

Tom grinned—but seeing no one stir, "Another lapsus linguae, sir!"

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

Litteris itaque ad plenum instructus, nativae quoque linguae non negligebat carmina; adeo ut, teste libro Elfredi, de quo superius dixi, nulla umquam aetate par ei fuerit quisquam.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.