Word: wye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from inoffensive phrases in the poem, Kinbote plunges into lengthy accounts of the Zemblan king's idyllic boyhood, his pederastic youth, his glorious escape during the revolution, and the academic education that allowed the incognito expatriate to land a lecturing job at Appalachia University in New Wye, U.S.A...
With two women suffering before his eyes, Novelist Hyams wrote to a local newspaper asking if any other Kentishmen were hearing the hum. He was staggered by the response: letters poured in from Maidstone and Canterbury, from Ashford, Wye and Deal. A woman in Australia wrote that she had heard the hum before she emigrated from Kent. Said Hyams: "We could scarcely get through the door because of the mound of mail." Most of the writers expressed relief be cause they had not dared mention the hum before, each thinking he was the only one hearing...