Word: fidditch
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Maddocks sounds like the Miss Fidditch of the 1600s who was constantly admonishing her school charges not to use that "vulgar" word you, but rather the "correct" thee, thou, thy and thine. Languages have always changed, such change is neither "healthy" nor "unhealthy," and neither the admonitions of a Miss Fidditch nor a Melvin Maddocks will do very much to affect our use of that magnificent and mysterious thing we call language...
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