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- ↑ "Helen Thomas Asks President Bush Why He Went to War". Democracy Now! . 22 March 2006. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
- ↑ "Term: Anadiplosis". usingenglish.com. White Smoke. Retrieved 20 May 2008.
- ↑ Nordquist, Richard. "Anaphora". grammar.about.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 20 May 2008.
- ↑ "BBC History: Fight on the beaches". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ↑ Until 19th century British English the near-universal form for expressing the last recorded words of Saints Sergius and Bacchus without extra stress, now widely deprecated as terse and/or archaic, would be, "For yours are not Gods, (but) (they) (are) man-made idols". The words in brackets expressing options commonly used. In colloquial British English and in much non British-English, the usual form would be "Yours aren't Gods, they're man-made idols".
Separately, the extra, clear connotation achieved by this diaphora quoted, of which those listening aware of Abrahamic religious would know, is that all Gods (pluralistic Gods) are idols so rejected by any monotheistic religion.
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