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8. Weird is the connection between our Civil War's Battle of The Wilderness and the OED

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 08:31 PM

Jan 2013

and why we have so many wonderfully exquisite words in our dictionaries that originate from Ceylon.

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Who writes the dictionary? [View all] Atticus Jan 2013 OP

No one writes it. Everything is plagiarized. lob1 Jan 2013 #1

Silly boy. Johnson wrote it Bucky Jan 2013 #3

it wasn't dictionarians? ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2013 #6

We do. Igel Jan 2013 #4

I am looking forward to it. niyad Jan 2013 #9