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Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – Day 302, 303 and 304

Scull Thatcher One of the slightly more jovial definitions in Grose’s book, this means “a peruke maker”, with a peruke

Scald Miserables Grose’s dictionary refers to this as “a set of mock masons, who in 1744 made a ludicrous procession

As another of my random and pointless posts, I’ve found this handy web-site which shows the translation of an English

This blog has reached nearly 5,000 posts and it’s becoming really quite difficult for anyone to easily navigate around it.

As another random post, I never knew booking.com even went up to level three until they e-mailed me this, but

Back to my entirely random posts again…. I saw this stupid promotion a few weeks ago and meant to check

Apologies for yet another random post…. Clicking on the above image makes it larger and easier to read, although the

This is Max Hawkins, a programmer who spoke at a TedX event. I’ll use the text they provided as it

Although anyone sensible would likely have a blog that concentrates on just one thing, it’s quite handy to be able

As an another irrelevant aside, I just noticed this on Google Ngram, which is how frequently the words ‘pub’ and