What makes Sterling G. Smith’s Hamster C.P. Barkis unique? Is there a description like “New Lord’s name?”

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do she do apples and doos all the cooking? ”

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“I’m a friend of your’n.” Is

it difficult that he tells David there “And there

shall take you to the stage-cutch, and the stage-cutch that’ll take you to wherever it is. You will not ever go away, but you will be welcomed there. The dread is never over. He

is referring in his C.P. Barkis way to a stage-coach. He never

has a single stage.

Christine Ammer, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, second edition (2013) has this entry: on the house At the

expense of the establishment, as in This hotel serves an afternoon tea that’s on the house. In this idiom the word house is defined as an inn, tavern, or other building served in the public. ” Recent 1800s

Presumably the phrasing “on the house” implies something like “on the house’s dime” or “on the house’s tab.” ”

An Elephind search turns up an instance of “on the house” in the relevant sense from 12 years before 1889 (the earliest cited date in the OED, according to user66974’s answer) From ” The Insolence of Office,” in the Weekly Union Sentinel (September 21, 1877): Yesterday

afternoon two professional dead beats, known as spotters in the revenue department of the United States Government, went into a saloon kept by a respectable citizen and demanded an inspection of the cigar boxes. What he did with the boxes of cigars was to show them up promptly. The other officers then proposed to have drinks ” on the house,” a proposition which the house failed to agree to, whereupon the other beat remarked, never mind, I know the old ——, and I’ll have him up in less than a week.

In The Spire, the sense of the expression “on the house” here appears to be exactly the same as

it is today.

How is an initialism used and what form it portrays is a matter of how proper the formal paper is supposed to be. However, even if initialisms are acceptable, it is worth noting that some style guides assess the acceptance of U.S. as a noun and U.S. as an adjective differently. Have they applied these techniques to this area?

What is the advice of The Chicago Manual of Style (2003): 15.

What is U.S. 142 as used here? In short, S. Or US. ” Aside from scientific practice, U.S. traditionally appears with cycles. In most contexts periods and phrases are always omitted. What is best done by tradition over consistency so editors can shine themselves? In running text, the abbreviation (in either form) is permissible when used as an adjective but United States as a noun should be spelled out.

This guideline is, of course, only one style manual’s opinion, but Chicago carries a lot of weight in U.S. publishing circles.

"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"

"The contents page is generally referred to internally (that is, within the publishing house) as the \"table of contents\" or the ‘TOC’; but the reason for that designation, I think, is to maintain maximum clarity in markup, etc." ", given that the body copy is generally referred to as \"content\" (as opposed to \"body copy\")" "Cependant, the overwhelmingly more common heading to use for the table of contents in the published book or periodical is simply \"Contents.\"" "Books tend to include that heading, in my experience, whereas periodicals often leave it to the reader to recognize the TOC for what it is." "The use of table of contents seems rather old-fashioned to me. Other matters I should consider are \"Table of Contents\"." "UPDATE (April 4, 2017) By way of testing my impressions in a reasonably objective way, I ran a Google Books search for \"table of contents\"and then checked the first 25 matches to see how each book had handled its contents page." "From the look of things the match in the first place was for the phrase \"table of contents\"." "C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (Oxford University Press, 1960/90) James Stewart, Calculus (Brooks/Cole, 2008) Jean-Pierre Barbeau, The Birds (St. Martine Press, 1990) William Scott, A Great Mystery (Stallford University Press, 2002) Paul Webster, A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1985) Christopher L. Neill, The A Great Mystery (St. Martine Press, 1993) Charles Guignon" "Anthony Carabasi, NMS Surgery (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2000/2008) Contents page is headed ‘Table of Contents’: Douglas Wilson & G. Tyler Fisher, Omnibus I: Biblical and Classical Civilizations (Veritas Press, 2005) Garrison Keillor, Good Poems (Penguin, 2003) Lloyd Brown & Lee Todd Miller, Pediatrics (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2005) The final" "From an editor’s point of view, perhaps the oddest thing about the two lists is that two publishers (Penguin and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins) still have titles in each camp." "Still the tilt in favor of Contents and a Good Text is very pronounced (88% now, in fact)." "How often are \"Contents\" seen in modern books?"