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Agin vs Ayin - What's the difference?

agin | ayin |

As an adverb agin

is alternative form of lang=en.

As a preposition agin

is alternative form of lang=en.

As a noun ayin is

the sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

agin

English

Adverb

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  • * 1859 , (Charles Dickens), "A Tale of Two Cities", in (All the Year Round) , vol. 1, p. 98:
  • ** At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • * 1859 , (w, Harper's New Monthly Magazine) , vol. 19, p. 278:
  • ** [The Court] said: "Young man, this ere Court is satisfied that there ain't nothin' in the laws of Vermont agin''' tippin' over a churn full of sap. [...] But I want ye should remember one thing—that this ere Court has made up his mind that it's a very naughty trick, and it's a shame that there's so many maple-trees in the State, and no law '''agin tippin' over sap."

    • Anagrams

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    ayin

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

  • The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

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