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Russians glum but Joking
seanessay.com Preface In my university not-so-stuffy Latin class, one day, as students entered, I was chuckling to the serious lady next to me. Such fun words in our Latin textbook, such as lycanthrope (werewolf) and one of today’s words, defenestrate. She said earnestly, “I saw that word last night, and I didn’t understand.” Of course […]