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Dave Wilton

14 Mar 2025 • 3 min read
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25 Feb 2026 4 min read
Poster of a dirigible over London at night, saying “It is far better to face the bullets than to be killed at home by a bomb”

dirigible

25 February 2026 Today, the word dirigible is almost always used as a noun, referring to a zeppelin-type airship, and I always had it in my head that the word was related to rigid, a reference to the rigid frame of such an aircraft. But that is not the case.
25 Feb 2026 2 min read
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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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