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A new book aimed at children celebrates wonderfully evocative words forgotten over the centuries [GETTY: Pic posed by model] Snollygoster: someone unprincipled, but shrewd; e.g door-to-door salespeople Most of them are very boring, very long and often the names of some new molecular wotsit beginning with “poly” or “tri”. But in the world of everyday usage our language is shrinking ...
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