MANS, OXES, LIFES. Comparison of adjectives was invariably made by adding -ER, -EST (GOOD, GOODER.

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Then he nodded to O’Brien. ‘Again,’ said O’Brien. ‘You are prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to cor- rupt.