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Jun 2023
11:28pm, 7 Jun 2023
97,661 posts
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swittle
Tears at bedtime? ^
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Jun 2023
4:32pm, 8 Jun 2023
70,725 posts
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GlennR
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Jun 2023
3:25pm, 9 Jun 2023
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Ocelot Spleens
This is quite something:- bbc.com |
Jun 2023
8:21pm, 9 Jun 2023
70,741 posts
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GlennR
Wow.
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Jun 2023
8:23pm, 9 Jun 2023
70,742 posts
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GlennR
Here's another 15th century manuscript, rather less high-minded: cam.ac.uk |
Jun 2023
10:44pm, 9 Jun 2023
97,700 posts
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swittle
Two contrasting texts of enormous interest: both tested my rather rusty ability to read medieval scripts.
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Jun 2023
12:47pm, 10 Jun 2023
146,169 posts
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GregP
“Summit” is now a verb? God and Mary save us. suitcasemag.com |
Jun 2023
2:13pm, 10 Jun 2023
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swittle
From Wkpda: 'Summit is a Cold War board wargame introduced in 1961 by Milton Bradley as "The Top Level Game of Global Strategy"...' Used to play this in my youth. Always a noun.
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Jun 2023
2:51pm, 10 Jun 2023
19,040 posts
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Cerrertonia
Summit being used as a verb goes back to Chaucer, so ~700 years ![]() |
Jun 2023
3:48pm, 10 Jun 2023
70,756 posts
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GlennR
Good work Cerrer. See also Caxton and aks.
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