ShieldofGondor t1_ja4z8z5 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 9:52 PM Reply to comment by Pogue_Mahone_ 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 And for Flanders: het Ros Beiaard. Permalink Parent 1
ShieldofGondor t1_ja4z8z5 wrote
Reply to comment by Pogue_Mahone_ 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
And for Flanders: het Ros Beiaard.