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John Simpson


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Cheltenham, The United Kingdom
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English lexicographer and former Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).

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West Cork and proverbs

[image error] Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1559) – Wikimedia Commons

I’m just back from the West Cork Literary Festival, talking about The Word Detective again. I included a section about Irish words in English and was surprised, when I researched the subject, just how many exclamations of sorrow and lament we record from Irish, as opposed to other languages. But that’s one

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Published on July 28, 2018 01:18
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