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Dave Wilton

24 Oct 2023 • 4 min read

A Halloween jack o’ lantern

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Words of the Year (So Far)

11 Dec 2025 2 min read

hobbit

10 December 2025 In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. So begins J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1937 novel The Hobbit. A hobbit, as anyone who doesn’t live in a hole in the ground knows, is a small humanoid creature with hairy feet and a fondness

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