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user2542 t1_ja2xj60 wrote

Reply to comment by Objective_Kick2930 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

Someone definitely got paid by the Oxford University Press to spend a few months researching the etymology of "fleek"

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VeGr-FXVG t1_ja3ixzy wrote

'Sebastian, why do you seem so morose?'

'Because of "Rizz", Jeffrey! From which vestibule of hades did this monstrosity materialise? Mother was right, I should've been a lapidiarist.'

'I thought you never took a shining took that?'

'Get out, Jeffrey'.

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