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- Delights
- Attention, please!
- What one looks for in one's Oxford history tutors
- Marvellous
- Question
- InDefinition - 54
- #addaletterbondmovies (also Mitch Benn's idea)
- #subtractaletterbondmovies (Mitch Benn's idea)
- Editors
- In Kafka's footsteps
- Lovely line
- First: find your nearest centre
- ¡Doh!
- Congo Free State
- 'Edmondo, my lahv, my lahv...!'
- The Writer's life
- Or vice versa
- Tragic reflection
- Grand openings
- If Charlize Theron can't make your language attrac...
- How to ruin a beautiful book-cover
- InDefinition - 53
- Ugly words
- Fair dos
- Self-ish
- Meta-something
- Favourite foreign onomatopoeia - 9
- Kafka was a wet-pants
- Only in English - 14
- Brilliant!
- Top tip
- Fair warning
- High stakes in the housing market
- Pre-prandial factoid
- DECREE: generic title for use on all memoirs here ...
- Small print (or, A likely story!)
- William Shakespeare makes silver-screen debut!!
- Only in English - 13
- The truth about Mortality
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