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and a season ticket-holder for his beloved Philadelphia Eagles

and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific

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The Word Detective the league and a season ticket-holder forCan you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions and a great many more can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief editor of the OED,