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Stories behind Words: Hogmanay

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Stories behind Words: Christmas, Noel and Yule

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The dinkum oil on ‘fair dinkum’

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Dude, where’s my etymology?

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Wet your appetite for eggcorns

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Catfishing, blackfishing, sadfishing: the spread of a...

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Simple in the correct sense of the word

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