Tretij_Rebenok_ t1_ja2tgkf wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:40 PM Reply to comment by theoldgreenwalrus 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 I am the Walrus Permalink Parent 35
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Reply to comment by theoldgreenwalrus 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
I am the Walrus