"Hoc _enim est_ corpus meum"

[Wilson Gray]

No. It's "Hoc _est enim_ corpus meum."

The rule of latin grammar is that "enim" can't be sentence-initial,
not that it has to be sentence-second. And, clearly, "hocus" is more
easily derived from "hoc est" than from "hoc enim."

-Wilson, an altar-boy in the days of the Latin Mass


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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.

                                           Rumanian proverb

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