[…] that under our present way of doing business there was a tendency to overspeculate on future advances in value; that such overspeculation always tended to produce a reaction; that there were evidences at the present time of the beginning of such a speculative fever […]

Celtic tended to thematicize athematic verbs and to generalize a single grade of ablaut, usually the zero grade of the plural:...

The oblique, short for oblique stroke or line, is written /, originally the French way of writing or printing a comma.

His undoubted skill meant that he was in much demand.