Month: July 2017
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Mammoth cheese, one nation, and shagging: Thomas Jefferson in the OED
To count to ten when angry, doll-baby, Irish-American, leaf lettuce, Megalonyx, N.Y., Riesling, sanction? The man who gave us “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” has also left us an incredible record of words in the English language. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by…
