KingRaffles t1_ja339r3 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 2:13 PM Reply to 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 Baldrick : I'm quite pleased with "dog." Blackadder : Yes, and your definition of "dog" is? Baldrick : "Not a cat." Permalink 87
KingRaffles t1_ja339r3 wrote
Reply to 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
Baldrick : I'm quite pleased with "dog." Blackadder : Yes, and your definition of "dog" is? Baldrick : "Not a cat."