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RussellCattle

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6. The link is to something called "cellar door group". I read a book about the English....

Reply to Donkees (Original post)

Sat Apr 3, 2021, 02:15 AM

Apr 2021

....language a few years ago called "The Plight of English", that related how our language is both enhanced and threatened by current trends. The author, Basil Cottle, used the expression "Cellar Door" as an example of how English can provide lovely words to describe unlovely things.

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