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Middle English
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To my right, which was to the North, there stood, very far away, the House of Silence, upon a low hill. And in that House were many lights, and no sound. And so had it been through an uncountable Eternity of Years.
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― The Night Land
― The Night Land
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In Middle English, cod meant "a bag or a sack", or by inference, "a scrotum", which is why the outrageous purse that sixteenth-century men wore at their crotch to give the appearance of enormous and decorative genitals was called a codpiece.
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― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Collection of anything that has been written in Middle English. Romances, hagiography, doctrines…more
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