• By Sadie
    Jul 13, 2009 7:20 PM 0
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    Life's Work

    Professor Christian Kay has spent 42 years compiling the world's most comprehensive thesaurus. (Which of course means the Daily Mail refers to her as a "lingo-loving spinster.") Says she, "Scots are quite good at dictionaries." [Daily Mail]


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