Starting in the 1930s, though, that tradition began to change... for reasons that I'm sure won't ever apply to American English. Nosirree, Bob, we're special. Great, even.
"Mathematics in Göttingen?" Hilbert repiled. "There is really none any more."
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A finer expression of the matter cannot be made.
