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What did you learn from reading fiction that you hadn't expected going in?
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09-25-2010, 04:15 AM
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Poppa1956
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Today I learned two —count ’em
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— new words from the last chapters of Little Women. The words are “hobbledehoy” and quadroon. The former is by chance dictionary.com's word of the day.
The latter has happily disappeared from most peoples vocabulary.
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