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“If I can’t call teeth bones, then you can’t call that a boner.” You were asleep. Peacefully. Dreaming of sugarplum faeries or whatever. It was nice. They were hot. You were aroused. In a manner exactly like a summer’s bre ...
Eleanor Pemberton is an associate editor at the Oxford English Dictionary - she traces the origins of words, hunts down first citations, and argues passionately about linguistic evolution. She's 31, Cambridge-born, and h ...