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Farrukh Dhondy | Researching Wikipedia on the origins of toxic words
Published : Dec 19, 2020, 12:30 am IST
Updated : Dec 19, 2020, 12:30 am IST
And in my idle researches I find that there are places where Wikipedia doesn’t fear to tread
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“If our hands bent both ways
There’d be lines marked on the back.
Predicting ruin and rack.
It’d be a sort of heads and tails
And palmists would be confounded
Not knowing which fortune prevails.”
From
Come, Say ‘Come’ by Bachchoo
Idle days, my friend, idle days in terms of worldly commerce, but busy as a woodpecker tapping the imagined computer keys of a tree-trunk. And as random questions occur, sometimes pertaining to work. Sometimes thoughtful wanderings from questions about how one dodges British tax by registering companies in Nassau, to the origins of phrases one has used and never stopped to etymologise.