Much more sweeping were the reforms proposed by Sir Thomas Smith (1568), who understandably but wrong-mindedly wanted letter forms to be “pictures” of speech sounds, that is, to have an iconic relationship to the sounds.

The classical ring of quotients of a commutative Bezout ring is a (von Neumann) regular local ring if and only if R is a commutative semihereditary local ring.

I assumed they were straight and cis, because otherwise they would have known about TERFy women’s lands or at least about the drama of Michfest.

In the four-volume supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (hereafter, OED), its editor, Burchfield, supplied a separate subdefinition stating that Hobson-Jobson was ‘[u]sed as the title of a famous collection of Anglo-Indian words’ … Thus, along with the Bible and the Koran, Hobson-Jobson, the book, has been elevated to the special status of being defined in the OED.