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[blamebrampton]

I accidentally attended a book sale today, but was very restrained and only purchased language books that I actually need for my appalling French and Italian, and a couple of history tomes, which are [Poll #1580212]And lil, thank you for your comment! I had to delete and start again because the poll was not working for me, hope it does this time!

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[goddessriss.livejournal.com]

I know you're knitting.

I find dictionaries endlessly fascinating. I recently bought a nice, compact one for my 13 year old niece who, I'm sure, thinks her biro comes with a built-in spell-checker. She may or may not use it, but at least she has it. Lord knows, she needs it! Youth of today, eh?

My own copy of the compact OED is fairly old and was purchased from a the local hospice charity shop for a fiver (in the days before they got wise to the book collecting market. I still remember finding those hardback Chalet School books for 75p each!). I love it.