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Dave Wilton

08 Apr 2026 • 3 min read

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many happy returns

8 April 2026 My practice when Facebook (yes, I’m still on Facebook; I’m old) reminds me of someone’s birthday is to send the message Many Happy Returns. I don’t remember when I first started doing it or why, but it was probably because I thought a

08 Apr 2026 1 min read

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French toast (paid)

06 Apr 2026 2 min read

hot little hands

6 April 2026 The phrase hot little hands was brought to my mind by Languagehat, a denizen of this site and proprietor of his own excellent blog on language. The phrase is used today in the context of eagerly possessing or receiving something. But why hot? And why little? The

06 Apr 2026 3 min read

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