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160. Coward

The Allusionist

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Anxiety Around Seagulls

If you have anxiety around sea gulls, it might be justified. Anxiety and anxious share a root word with anxt and anguish and anger. The h in hannail is one of those linguistic fake letters added in error, is really ang nail. Quinsy is from the old french quinancy, which came from the ancient greek for sore throat, cunanke. I love these grammatical distinctions because they're huge, aren't they?

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