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Mon 30 Apr, 2012 06:31 am
Context:
Every building fashioned in the imperial style and all prohibited fascimilies of the royal regalia were burned. The city was then stripped bare. Cao Cao wanted to pursue Yuan Shu across the Huai, but Xun Wenruo objected: "It's not in ...
Oh please . . .
Quote:fac·sim·i·le: [fak-sim-uh-lee] noun, verb, fac·sim·i·led, fac·sim·i·le·ing, adjective
noun
1.
an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.
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Your context is saying that exact copies of the regalia were burned. Facsimile is the origin of the word fax, meaning a copy transmitted over a telephone line.
@oristarA,
Misspelled. (Should be "c" before "s", as in Setanta's post.)
@sozobe,
Good lookin' out . . . i hadn't spotted that.
@sozobe,
original word:
oristarA wrote:fascimilies
sozobe wrote:
Misspelled. (Should be "c" before "s", as in Setanta's post.)
Still misspelled. It's F A C S I M I L E S
I have often wondered at the reasoning ability of some of my early teachers. If you didn't know how to spell a word, they'd tell us to look it up in a dictionary. Hey Teach, how do you spell psychology again?
@roger,
Totally. I was always flabbergasted to be told to look up the spelling. How'm I gonna look 'er up if'n I dunno how to spell 'er?
@contrex,
contrex wrote:Still misspelled. It's F A C S I M I L E S
as it was spelled in Set's response.
@Setanta,
Quote:Good lookin' out . . . i hadn't spotted that.
That's because you often leap to conclusions without giving the necessary thought.
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