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A tentative blog to test the temperature.
#1010813 added May 26, 2021 at 5:37pm
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English is a Brigand
Just been reminded of a magnificent word that English pinched from the French - "oeuvre." Miriam-Webster defines it as "a substantial body of work constituting the lifework of a writer, an artist, or a composer," and it should be enormously useful in the context of WdC. Here's hoping it returns to more general use because it sounds so much more impressive than just "lifework."

Or am I being snobbish?


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