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Word: croutons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suprisingly enough, Harvard students, however, can't afford to consider croutons standard issue. Cabot, Currier Dunster, Mather and North salads all lack the crouton crackle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salad Days | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...words in use, but such minor "rectifications" cut no ice with editors and academics who have launched a vigorous contre-attaque (new spelling: contrattaque). At the center of their protest is the circumflex accent, a little hat the French occasionally put over vowels (as in chateau and hotel, crouton and maitre). To simplify matters, the new rules would remove it from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Tempest in a Chapeau | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

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