goblin / hobgoblin

Dave Wilton

31 Oct 2023 • 4 min read

A girl paying goblins for fruit by cutting off a lock of her blonde hair, illustrating the line “Buy from us with a golden curl” from Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem The Goblin Market, drawn by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Calcium is a chemical element with atomic number 20 and the symbol Ca. It is a reactive, alkaline earth metal, dull gray or silver in color with a yellow tint. When exposed to air it forms a dark oxide layer on the surface. Calcium is essential for life as we

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2024 Wordorigins Words of the Year (WOTY)

As in past years, I’ve come up with a list of Words of The Year (WOTY). I do things a bit differently from other sites in that I don’t try to select one term to represent the entire year. Instead, I select twelve terms, one for each month.

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