Recently a couple of squash friends in Santa Fe emailed about the etymology of the word boast. My Oxford English Dictionary starts off by listing the ancient spellings of the word, which can be found before the year 1300. “Their mutual relation and origin are unknown,” it says, almost throwing up their hands. “Various conjectures … Continue reading Boast
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