UK News 25-10-2001 who: Oxford University Press what: Publishes Dictionary of Weird and Wonderful Words where: OXFORD when: Today snippet: "Once upon a time, long, long ago an atrabilious bindlestiff was walking the open road when he bumped into an erubescent-cheeked gaberlunzie with a fondness for the drink," begins Peter Foster in The Telegraph in a fascinating look at some words which "never became current even in their day but were invented by clever chaps who knew too much Latin..." [... more]

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