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La Farge prefers the print edition: “Of course you can look words up online. But how will you stumble on the ones you don’t know you don’t know: ug, or apocalypst, or catoptromancy?”
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2018
Without waiting for the guns to be drawn ug, he quietly stepped down.
From Time Magazine Archive
In combining gu and mu with the pronouns, the letters of the Prepositions suffer a transposition, and are written ug, um.
From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander
Their name for ghost is Jeebi, a word rendered plural in ug.
From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
In Gothic the same root has produced agis, in the sense of fear, and from the same source we have awe, in awful, i.e. fearful, and ug, in ugly.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
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