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Serendipuccino

Is when your iPod music matches your mood and you have time and change for a cappuccino and you find, in a copy of The Times kindly left for your perusal, a perfectly delicious little article. A gem. Rummaging in the Times online, later, I find there’s another I hadn’t seen.
I am not a big [...]

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OED Adwords Anybody?

The Oxford English Dictionary is one of the greatest and least celebrated of cultural achievements. It’s a source of information, education and entertainment– as the BBC is supposed to be, and for which it receives a vast public subsidy running into billions of pounds per year — though the OED is perhaps not one [...]

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