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Hugh Wilford treats the reader to a captivating cast of characters and makes telling connections
Toby Harnden
‘Slather’ has been used for less than a century to mean ‘spread or splash liberally on’
Dot Wordsworth
We never used to use the term in speech
Ngapali, on the Bay of Bengal, is pronounced ‘Napoli’ and is said to be Burma’s answer to Naples
Lesley Downer
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Out of an envelope fell an original poem scribbled and signed by Rudyard Kipling
Aidan Hartley
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