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Posted on August 30, 2017August 30, 2017

Was the term “bed and breakfast” first used in 1978? (as well as “Tinseltown”)

Merriam-Webster have a fun online toy which you use to enter a year and purports to show you the words that first appeared in print that year. (I came across…

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Posted on October 8, 2016October 8, 2016

“streets ahead etc.” – Flashman on the March, 2005, SAU blog

I have just begun reading George Macdonald Fraser’s “Quartered Safe Out Here” – an author I have not read in some time but enjoyed greatly a decade ago and am…

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