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Dave Wilton

24 Oct 2023 • 4 min read
Halloween
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sapphire

23 February 2026 Sapphire is a gem, usually blue in color, a variety of corundum. The word came into English from the Anglo-Norman saphir, which is from the Latin sapphirus, which, in turn, is from the Greek σάπφειρος (sappheiros). After the Greek, the trail gets muddy. It may come from
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