Archive for the 'January 2008'

Dear Word Detective: I heard from an old salt...
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Dear Word Detective: I came across...
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Dear Word Detective: “Dock” is a...
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Dear Word Detective: I have somehow gotten the...
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Dear Word Detective: So okay, I lived a few years...
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