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Word: blackpudlian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1945 | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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