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Seventy years young

We all find at times that we reach for the words of others to express just what we want to say. Gleaming red berries through the fog of a September morning may remind the more literary of John Keats’s ‘season of mists, and mellow fruitfulness’ [...]

Posted on: October 13 2011 | Comments: 1 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography, English in use | Tags: , , , , ,

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