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We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate people of whom we have never heard. More than that, we speak volumes — our language is the language of everything we have read. Shakespeare and the Authorised Version surface in supermarkets, on buses, chatter on radio and television. I find this miraculous. I never cease to wonder at it. That words are more durable than anything, that they blow with the wind, hibernate and reawaken, shelter parasitic on the most unlikely hosts, survive and survive and survive.
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LOVE 708 clues
LIFE 399 clues
PAIN 396 clues
ENERGY 364 clues
SLEEP 344 clues
WORDS 118 clues
LANGUAGE 89 clues
LEAVING 58 clues
CYCLES 38 clues
NONCONFORMITY 19 clues
CIVILIZATION 13 clues
PRIESTESS 7 clues
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Unscramble PENELOPE8-letter words that start with P8-letter words that end in E8-letter words containing EN8-letter words with P and E
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
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AND STILL ___
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