The word gerrymander ( originally written Gerry-mander ) was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette newspaper on March 26, 1812.

The resulting district is known as a gerrymander (); however, that word can also refer to the process.

" Federalist newspapers editors and others at the time likened the district shape to a salamander, and the word gerrymander was a blend of that word and Governor Gerry's last name.

The word gerrymander ( originally written Gerry-mander ) was used for the first time in the Boston Gazette on March 26, 1812.

Although the letter g of the eponymous Gerry is pronounced as in go, the word gerrymander is most commonly pronounced, with a as in gentle.

In what became known as the Tullymander ( a pun on the word gerrymander ) he re-drew every constituency in Ireland ( as he had authority to do ), apparently favouring Fine Gael and Labour Party candidates.

He was a descendant of Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts who is commemorated in the word ' gerrymander '.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

'' ( The Grafin was partial to the word shall.

There was no doubt that Herr Schaffner meant every word of what he said.

Hot, that was the word, hot!!

Next day, word came that Miriam was not going through with the divorce ; ;

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

There was one particular word that troubled his conscience.

This was the Greek word most often translated as `` baptism ''.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

That word was withheld when the need of it seemed the measure of his despair.

A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.

The word was that this too was part of an economy move on his part.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.

Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.

Fosdick insisted that a strong word was needed from Washington, and it was immediately forthcoming.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

The first explicit description of iridological principles such as homolaterality ( without using the word iridology ) are found in Chiromatica Medica, a famous work published in 1665 and reprinted in 1670 and 1691 by Philippus Meyeus ( Philip Meyen von Coburg ).

His most notable writings during these years were his political papers that attacked and revealed the confederacy of the Orléanists and Legitimists against the Republic ; his re-editions of many of his old articles and books, among others the Conservation, révolution et positivisme of 1852 ( which he reprinted word for word, appending a formal, categorical renunciation of many of the Comtist doctrines therein contained ); and a little tract, Pour la dernière fois, in which he maintained his unalterable belief in the philosophy of Materialism.

However, all uses of the word " um " present when the strips originally appeared were removed in the reprinted versions.

When he began to have a wider audience in the United States, his studies in crime were printed and reprinted in a series of overlapping anthologies, generally titled on variants of the word " murder ": Mainly Murder, The Enjoyment of Murder, Murder and More Murder, The Murderer's Companion, The Art of Murder and Nothing But Murder.

Crawford himself was fondest of Khaled: A Tale of Arabia ( 1891 ), a story of a genie ( genius is Crawford's word ) who becomes human, which was reprinted ( 1971 ) in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series of the early 1970s.

Sometimes Starr ’ s account is reprinted almost word for word, with an emphasis on anything that sounds even remotely spooky.

" The word is also used in numerous other Australian contexts, including the House of the Gentle Bunyip in Clifton Hill, Victoria.

The word has nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command.

The term cabal derives from Kabbalah ( a word that has numerous spelling variations ), the mystical interpretation ( of Babylonian origin ) of the Hebrew scripture, and originally meant either an occult doctrine or a secret.

A detailed comparison between the surviving Italian and Spanish texts shows numerous places where the Spanish reading appears to be secondary, as for example, where a word necessary for the meaning is missing in the Spanish text but present in the Italian.

His cryptic utterance that " all entities come to be in accordance with this Logos " ( literally, " word ", " reason ", or " account ") has been the subject of numerous interpretations.

Although now focused primarily on spoken word, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations.

It was the potters ' quarter of the city, from which the English word " ceramic " is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the road out of the city towards Eleusis.

Matthew 7: 22 – It has additional word πολλα ( numerous ): " and cast out numerous demons in your name ?".

The series generated numerous complaints because of its frequent use of racist epithets and ' bad language ' - one viewer reportedly complained of counting 59 uses of the word " bloody " in one episode-and it was cancelled on the orders of the Independent Broadcasting Authority after only six episodes.

One can find numerous representations of small greyhound-like hounds in art dating back to Roman times but the first written English use of the word " whippet " with regard to a type of dog was in 1610.

The etymological pedigree of the word, however, remains uncertain, though numerous speculative attempts have been made to find Indo-European cognates outside the Germanic group.

In common language, the word to think covers numerous and diverse psychological activities.

In the early production stages, there were numerous references to the word " freedom ": the White Base was originally " Freedom's Fortress ", the Core Fighter was the " Freedom Wing ", and the Gunperry was the " Freedom Cruiser ".

The name rambutan is derived from the Indonesian word rambutan, meaning " hairy ": rambut the Indonesian word for " hair ", a reference to the numerous hairy protuberances of the fruit, together with the noun-building suffix-an.

* Violetear — hummingbirds of the genus Colibri, or Kolibri ( word for hummingbird in numerous languages )

Henning ( 1948 ) also exorcised the perpetual debate about equivalency of the numerous Chinese phonetic renditions of the word Hun and the Huns known from non-Chinese sources, by demonstrating an alphabetical form of the word coded in the Chinese as Xiongnu.

The latter's name is source of numerous words in English and the Romance languages, including the word " money ".

The word Cailleach means ' hag ' in modern Scottish Gaelic, and has been applied to numerous mythological figures in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

The heraldic fleur-de-lis is still widespread: among the numerous cities which use it as a symbol are some whose names echo the word ' lily ', for example, Liljendal, Finland.

Saqqara features numerous pyramids, including the world famous Step pyramid of Djoser, sometimes referred to as the Step Tomb due to its rectangular base, as well as a number of mastabas ( Arabic word meaning ' bench ').

In the 18th and 19th century European writers used the word " Kirghiz " ( the early Anglicized form of the contemporary Russian " киргизы ") to refer not only to the people we now know as Kyrgyz, but also to their more numerous northern relatives, the Kazakhs.