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Maleficent-Drive4056 t1_ja3qfrg wrote

Reply to comment by KingRaffles 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

Funny because obviously it’s nonsensical yet if someone gave that definition I would know it’s referring to a dog (even without having watched blackadder).

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