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Addenda to the 1923 Printing of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Third Edition of the Merriam Series), by colleen
Francophile, by mjbrej
Loaded Dice, by oroboros
monkey's Words, by monkey
reem's words, by reem
GRE list #2, by Sera
Test-words, by Sera
zilch's Words, by zilch
rduke's Words, by rduke
Chromonyms, by mollusque
Gossiphoning, by whichbe
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A bright, deep blue like that found on a mallard's wing.
"For centuries, schoolboys first encountered the wisdom of the ancients in this predigested form. When Erasmus told the story of Pandora, he said that she opened not a jar, as in the original version of the story, by the Greek poet Hesiod, but a box. In every European language except Italian, Pandora’s box became proverbial—a canard made ubiquitous by the power of a new information technology." - Future Reading, by Andrew Grafton, The New Yorker, Nov 1 2007 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton?currentPage=2
"A deliberately misleading fabrication"