 | Hippolyte Dussauce - 1871 - 432 pages
...to be universal, can only become familiar by use. Like all strange words, these will become familiar by custom, and obtain popular abbreviations. A system...component word with a prefix signifying number. We are all familiar with thermometer, barometer, diameter, gasometer, &c., with telegram, monogram, &c., words... | |
 | Alfred Roseleur - 1872 - 536 pages
...to be universal, can only become familiar by use. Like all strange words, these will become familiar by custom, and obtain popular abbreviations. A system...component word with a prefix signifying number. We are all familiar with thermometer, barometer, diameter, gasometer, &c., with telegram, monogram, &c., words... | |
 | Bruno Kerl - 1889 - 404 pages
...to be universal, can only become familiar by use. Like all strange words, these will become familiar by custom, and obtain popular abbreviations. A system...incorporated with itself so many different series of weights, nnd such a nomenclature as 'scruples,' 'pennyweights,' 'avoirdupois,' and with no invariable component... | |
 | 1866 - 28 pages
...to be universal, can only become familiar by use. Like all strange words, these will become familiar by custom, and obtain popular abbreviations. A system...number. We are already familiar with thermometer, ba?~ometcr, diameter, gasometer, &c., with telegram, monogram, &c. — words formed in the same manner.... | |
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A system which has incorporated with itself so many different series of weights, and such a nomenclature as 'scruples,' 'pennyweights,' 'avoirdupois,' and with no invariable component word, can hardly protest against a nomenclature whose leading characteristic... 