How to Call Someone "Stupid" in Old English | Judy Pearsall
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2011 · Education
Judy Pearsall (Reference Publishing Manager) discusses the many entries in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary relating to "foolish person." © Oxford University Press
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