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Bosnian languageThe Bosnian language is one of the standard written versions of the Serbo-Croatian language, used primarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name for the language is fairly recent (from the early 1990s) and is a controversial issue. Croats and Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina call their language Croatian and Serbian. The language is based on the Western variant of the Shtokavian dialect and uses both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabet. However, the Latin alphabet is more commonly used. Differences from other versions include many words of Turkish and Arabic origin and some phonetic differences. sending me to a monastery to be taught to live a life of chastity; they
to a Quaker to be taught good manners, as to a Papist to be taught
pride refused me a husband at my need, and so drove me to obtain by
the raging bull of a nobleman who first tempted me," cried another, "had
become a common chattel, nor would I have come to this infernal place;"
far before I observed, to my astonishment, another prison full of women,
serpents, and there they swam about, hissing and foaming, and butting one
"Pray, what can these be?" asked I. "There are here," said he, "four
who maintained harlots to sell their virginity an hundred times, and the
by thousands of tale-bearing hags. Thirdly: Huntresses followed by a
unless in fear of them. Fourthly: The scolds, become a hundredfold more
"I would have deemed Lucifer too gracious a monarch to place a noble lady
the others, but was far more hideous than a winged serpent. "Oh, that he
for thee, thou poisonous hellworm," cried another ugly viper. "Many
place and worth as something better; though ye would cause everyone as
your favor." "And Lucifer hath another reason," whispered the Angel,
loose, they might send all hell into utter confusion."
Thence we still descended until I saw an immense cavern wherein was such
blaspheming, snarling, groaning and yelling. "Whom have we here?" I
foresters, lawyers and stewards, with old Judas in their midst." And it
a more comfortable chamber. Hardly had I turned round when a demon, in
them into the midst of the pedlars and horse cheats, because they had
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