"Dunolly (n): an improvised umbrella"

The dictionary of words for things that don't have their own words, The Meaning of Liff, by John Lloyd & the late, great Douglas Adams, has returned in a new edition from Macmillan

Clever, funny; an ideal stocking filler gift.

(some of us still have our original edition from the 1980s!)

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The synopsis on Goodreads calls this book a compendium of mistakes, misconceptions, and misunderstandings. While that tempts me now, I only bought it for its Stephen Fry foreword.

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"Extensive research relating to the Jupiter Hammon family suggests a kinship history that plots their journey from West Africa into bondage within the plantation system of the West Indies and North America and their journey into free society in the Town of Huntington, NY, through a combination of mutual support, self-sufficiency, and notable resilience."
-Charla E. Bolton, AICP and Reginald H. Metcalf, Jr.

https://lihj.cc.stonybrook.edu/2013/articles/the-migration-of-jupiter-hammon-and-his-family-from-slavery-to-freedom-and-its-consequences/

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