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From ‘carbonation’ to ‘navy blue’: which words came to life 200 years ago?
If the dawning of the New Year invariably brings you to brood upon the inexorable march of time, you find yourself in good company. Here at the Oxford English Dictionary, we are very aware of how what society does—and even how society thinks—is much informed by the movement from past to present, and onward into [...]
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