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The Oddity of Old Words

I am meant to be working on a conference paper entitled ‘Conversing with the Past’. But I got distracted by one of those odd Facebook postings: a definition of an unusual and old-fashioned word. “Balter.” It is, apparently, pronounced BOLL-tuh. … Continue reading

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