Saturday, December 01, 2007

Kenspeckle

A fascinating article at the Scotsman on a new edition of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell's respective accounts of the trip they took to the Hebrides. I must get a copy of this book, it sounds like it could be fascinating to teach...

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  1. Kenspeckled: "Particularly marked, so as to be easily known," according to the General View of the Agriculture of Durham (1810). Soon the conspiracy to revive it will be achieved.

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