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EvilioMTE t1_ja6gz51 wrote

Reply to comment by Nixon4Prez 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

>what a lot of people don't realize

I mean that's fairly well known.

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Nixon4Prez t1_ja6v6zv wrote

Fairly well known among fans of Tolkien, but not so much among the general public

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