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When language is magic
'the process by which a blood vessel or organ is obstructed by a material mass'
How familiar are you with Nabokov’s unfamiliar vocabulary?
One's clever, the other's like a child
The story of an imaginary word that managed to sneak past our editors and enter the dictionary.
Or both? Or neither?
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Surely we can be serious.
Know your Duchess from your Baroness
Not your children's farm quiz.
Test your knowledge - and maybe learn something along the way.
A game of winding words.
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