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A four-forked etymology: curfew

A four-forked etymology: curfew
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The Best Books I Read in 2023 – Catholic World Report
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Book review: The Dictionary People, by Sarah Ogilvie

Book review: The Dictionary People, by Sarah Ogilvie
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Daisy Hay · Rare, Obsolete, New, Peculiar: Dictionary People · LRB 19 October 2023

Daisy Hay · Rare, Obsolete, New, Peculiar: Dictionary People · LRB 19 October 2023
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Spelling it out: the volunteers who made the dictionary

‘Everything obscene comes from France,’ wrote James Dixon, an eye surgeon retired to Dorking, in 1888. He was provoked by learning of an item called a condom, and explained to his correspondent, James Murray, that this was ‘a contrivance used by fornicators, to save themselves from a well-deserved clap’. Surely the word had no place

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