David Crystal
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English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
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Boast – black bird
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Hint 1 meaning
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a
strong conical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croaking
note. See Caw.
Hint 2 anagram
RCOW
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