Apr 072020
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Enlarge / “Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!” Monty Python and the Holy Grail’s family-friendly approach to swearing handily avoids the F-word. (credit: YouTube/Funny or Die/Monty Python) Scotland has much to recommend it: impressive architecture, gorgeous Highlands, and a long, distinguished intellectual tradition that has spawned some of the Western world’s greatest thinkers over several centuries. It’s also, apparently, home to a medieval manuscript that contains the earliest known usage…
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2020-04-07
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