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Are you a hoarder?

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Is It an Anglo-Saxon Word or a Dragon's Hoard?

The word that hoard is an Anglo-Saxon word and there's but also the idea of the word hoard. I don't know that it became pejorative but it's not clear that it was. It always has had slightly connet negative connotations in the sense of a love of money or a love of accumulation for its own sake being in the Judeo-Christian tradition anyway considered you know slightly sinful but yeah they have no use value one of them says.

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