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A letter from Susan Rugg – Completely gruntled

A letter from Susan Rugg – Completely gruntled

RE the correspondence about language, there is actually a word ‘ gruntled ’, defined in my 2011 edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary as a humorous word meaning pleased or satisfied, and coined in ...
A letter from Peter Burkinshaw – Language

A letter from Peter Burkinshaw – Language

Firstly, I would like to suggest that providing an e-mail address for Charlotte Courthold would make it infinitely easier to contribute to your “old fossils” article. You wouldn’t say “shevelled becau ...