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Photograph: FEndi Women’s leggings, coffee pods, microwave rice and computer game downloads have all been added to the ‘basket of goods’ used to measure UK inflation, while CD Roms and nightclub fees are out.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2016

NEUMANN, C.—Geschichte Roms während des Verfalles der Republik,     Breslau, 1881-4.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

My information on the subject is derived from a pamphlet of 79 pages by Hermann Usener, printed at Bonn in 1877, and bearing the title 'Anecdoton Holderi: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Roms in Ostgothischer Zeit.'

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

An’ when len sān sār jālled lúg, the Rommany chāls welled adoi an’ latched adusta bitti barrels o’ tatto-pánni, an’ fino covvas, for dovo mushis were ’mugglers, and the Roms lelled sar they mukked pāli. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

That there are Roms in the land of Mizr his eyes have shown, but whether any of them can talk Rommany is to him as yet unknown.

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey