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The Angus Briefing · Wednesday · 3 min

A Word, Please: Island

Today’s word has spent five centuries carrying an interloper right in its middle—a bit of scholarly vanity that our pens dutifully accepted, but our tongues have always had the good sense to ignore.

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Today’s word has spent five centuries carrying an interloper right in its middle—a bit of scholarly vanity that our pens dutifully accepted, but our tongues have always had the good sense to ignore.