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Dave Wilton

05 Feb 2025 • 7 min read
Display of eight unfurled condoms of different brands and their packaging

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Fireworks exploding over a cityscape featuring a clock tower
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17 Sep 2025 2 min read
Fresco of a woman sitting in a verdant setting with a white unicorn climbing onto her lap

unicorn

We all know a unicorn is a mythical creature resembling a horse with a single horn projecting from its forehead, but the term has some quite interesting slang uses. The word comes to English via Anglo-Norman, the variety of French spoken in England after the Norman conquest, and ultimately from
17 Sep 2025 4 min read
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