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The Mermaid, site of Fall of Because's first concert with Broadrick. The band that would eventually become Godflesh, O.P.D. (Officially Pronounced Dead), [1] [2] formed in 1982 when B. C. Green and Paul Neville, two young musicians living in cheap council estate housing in east Birmingham, started experimenting musically alongside a drum machine.
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a stereotypically effeminate gay man or lesbian (slang, pronounced as written). In French, femme (pronounced 'fam') means "woman." fin de siècle comparable to (but not exactly the same as) turn-of-the-century but with a connotation of decadence, usually applied to the period from 1890 through 1910. In French, it means "end of the century", but ...
In colloquial French, it is common to drop the ne, although this can create some ambiguity with the ne … plus construction when written down, as plus could mean either 'more' or 'not anymore'. Generally when plus is used to mean more, the final s is pronounced (), whereas it is never pronounced when used to mean 'not anymore' ().
He formed his first band, OPD ("Officially Pronounced Dead"), in 1982 with Neville. The band usually rehearsed at Green's or Neville's house. They changed their name to Fall of Because after the Killing Joke song of the same name in 1985.
[citation needed] Lepers, who were particularly dreaded, were also considered civilly dead as of the day they entered a leper colony. [20] The consequences of civil death were discussed in Article 25 of the Code Napoléon. An individual pronounced legally dead lost his rights of succession, and his assets were seized and distributed to his ...
This is a list of French words, terms and phrases of English language origin, some of a specialist nature, in common usage in the French language or at least within their specialist area. Modern English is rarely considered a source language as it is itself a mixture of other languages.