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Adding 2 to 130 gives a multiple of 11 (because 132 = 12×11)—this is the only number between 0 and 10 which does so. Therefore, the check digit has to be 2, and the complete sequence is ISBN 0-306-40615-2. If the value of required to satisfy this condition is 10, then an 'X' should be used.
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...
Tikki Tikki Tembo is set in ancient China and invents a fictitious ancient Chinese custom whereby parents honor their first-born sons with long, elaborate names that everyone is obliged to say completely – no nicknames, no shortening of any kind – while second-born sons are typically given short, unimportant names.
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ISBN 0-233-98001-6; The Palace of Varieties: An Insider's View of Westminster, John Murray, 1989. ISBN 0-719-54729-6; A Bag of Boiled Sweets. An Autobiography, Faber and Faber, 1994. ISBN 0-571-17496-5; Collapse of Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. (with Morrison Halcrow) ISBN 0-575-06277-0
English Qaballa (EQ) is a system of Hermetic Qabalah, supported by a system of arithmancy that interprets the letters of the English alphabet via an assigned set of values. . It was created by James Lees in 1976, through his efforts to understand, interpret, and elaborate on the mysteries of Aleister Crowley's Book of the L
The first editor, William Little, worked on the book from 1902 until his death in 1922. The dictionary was completed by H. W. Fowler, Jessie Coulson, and C. T. Onions.An abridgement of the complete work was contemplated from 1879, when the Oxford University Press took over from the Philological Society on what was then known as A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.
The New Hacker's Dictionary (editor; MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-68092-0) – printed version of the Jargon File with Raymond listed as the editor. The Cathedral and the Bazaar (O'Reilly; hardcover ISBN 1-56592-724-9, 1999) – includes "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", "Homesteading the Noosphere", "The Magic Cauldron" and "Revenge of the Hackers"