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ETYMOLOGY: RHODOMONTADE AND OTHER CHARACTER TRAITS

THIS RESEARCH STARTED with an erudite, if perhaps overwrought, description of Britain’s Boris Johnson in the London Review of Books, August 15, 2019: Ferdinand Mount, one of the article’s co-authors, … Continue reading

December 8, 2019 · 3 Comments