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21:41 Jan 28, 2015 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Social Sciences - History | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 03:55 | ||||||
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4 +6 | It's a mistake: ignore it |
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4 +1 | I beg to remain your humble servant |
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4 +1 | word order and pecking order |
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I beg to remain your humble servant Explanation: -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 mins (2015-01-28 21:48:45 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Or somewhat longer, e.g.: I beg to remain your most humble and obedient servant. Examples: http://tinyurl.com/ncwyyzv -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 10 mins (2015-01-28 21:52:03 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- beg to ask (someone) for (something) formally, humbly, or earnestly http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/beg -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 24 mins (2015-01-28 22:06:45 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- July 22, 1898 Hoping you will accept this in the kindly spirit in which it is written, I beg to remain Your humble servant, C. 0. FENTON http://newspaperarchive.com/us/indiana/logansport/logansport... So it's not necessarily modern English [I corrected some OCR typos]. |
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