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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Anno Domini – 1,250,000 ghits
Anni Domino – 539 ghits
Heard in the wild a few days ago – it’s entirely understandable that folk should morph strange Latin sounds into a familiar name and a piece from a board-game. It’s also a sort of reversed Spoonerism, with the last rather than the first letters swapped – is there a name for that?
I once heard a television evangelist on a worldwide satellite hookup say “anni domino” for “Anno Domini.” He gave it a southern pronunciation so it came out …
www.daltai.com/discus/messages/13510/15 … 1134854971 – 54k – Supplemental Result – Cached
She was seven pounds, nine ounces, nineteen inches long, and born on the 13th of August, Anni Domino 1988, at 9:00pm. After we saw her, we decided not to …
www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~david/derya/stor … ry8373.htm – 14k – Supplemental Result – Cached
11 Jun 2006 18:33:10 GMT AD means Anni Domino and starts from the birth of Jesus Christ (Even though it is thought Christ was born around 4 BC) BC means …
de.answers.yahoo.com/rss/question?qid=20060611110240AAtnn3I – 7k – Supplemental Result – Cached –
Wooden name desk set and house Anni domino 2000. Child swing, design of a child swing, wooden swing set for child. Swing set wood swing set. ...
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FYI, there is an indie rocker named Anna Domino.
Anna Domino – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anna Domino (nee Anna Virginia Taylor Delory) is a Tokyo-born indie rock artist who has released several recordings under that moniker. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Domino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Domino
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