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The OED is 80: Postcards from Oxford

Like most postcards, this post comes many days after I have returned from Oxford and the 80th anniversary celebration of the OED. My last post left off on Monday after our lunch at the Eagle and Child Pub where Simon Winchester and Ammon Shea joined us for fish and chips and pints of English beer.

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Slang 101

Cassie reads a dictionary of slang and shares some of the great words she finds.

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