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MJTony t1_ja249lm wrote

Reply to comment by Nixon4Prez in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

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bend1310 t1_ja55e7x wrote

The elephant is in the room

The truth is in your face when you hear the British canon go boom!

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