Word: watlington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devotion to thousands of little cards, Co-Editor Hulbert refreshed himself with detective stories. But what Sir William chiefly likes to do when not defining a word is to change the subject by defining another one. Last week he was in a hillside cottage above the pretty village of Watlington, plugging away on material for his Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, which has been in progress for twelve years. But as an old word wrestler he well knows that no lexicon is ever complete or wholly correct, and is partly out-of-date before it is even finished...