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Dave Wilton

11 Nov 2026 • 1 min read
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A glazed, Bavarian cream donut

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bog-standard

11 November 2026 Bog-standard is a Briticism meaning basic, standard, unexceptional. It’s a mildly disparaging term to apply to a product. The term arises in the mid twentieth century, but what the bog refers to is unknown, although that hasn’t stopped all sorts of speculation as to
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tour de force

9 November 2026 Tour de force is, of course, a French phrase literally meaning feat of strength. It starts appearing in English use in the closing years of the eighteenth century. The Oxford English Dictionary has a citation from the 17 December 1787 issue of London’s Public Advertiser that
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