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The Romance of Language: Word for the Week 3/03/17

Curglaff: “The shock felt in bathing when one first plunges into the cold water.” –from John Jamieson’s Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808 Curglotft: panic-struck –from Alexander Warrack’s Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911     The first thing I thought of when seeing … Continue reading

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