While waiting to cross a road yesterday, I watched a cyclist do a perfectly legal and correct right-hand turn. The bike stayed to the outside of the lane but even there he caused the car behind him to pause for a moment before it could turn. The car then took its turn, the driver planting [...]
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Over forty years is a long time to work on a single task. Yet that has been the lot of the four editors of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. The massive 3,952 page double volume will be released this month, the culmination of the editors’ entire careers. In our world of fast, [...]
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