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A 19th Century dictionary of mining terms used in Derbyshire has fetched £17,000 at an auction. Hansons Auctioneers said the ...
In an in-depth interview, independent filmmaker Prashant Pandit discusses his trilingual documentary, “The Word and The ...
The poet John Dryden wrote, “Words are but pictures of our thoughts,” and a couple of new ones — pogonotomy and xylarium — recently roused some mental illustrations. A xylarium ...
Read on to unpack preaching to the choir’s meaning and to sing the praises of this spirited idiom.
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