Stories
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The trouble with too many things
Hoarding is a slippery subject – difficult to define or diagnose. As she tries to explain the intensity of her grandma’s collecting, Georgie Evans finds the words and tools at her disposal aren’t all that helpful.
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Writing in remission
Reading the writings of the lifelong hypochondriac Jacques Derrida during lockdown, Brian Dillon realises his own health anxiety has become unusually subdued.
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Between sickness and health
In early 2020, the subject Will Rees was studying – imaginary illnesses – took on a new relevance as everyone anxiously scanned themselves for Covid symptoms each day. But this kind of self-scrutiny is nothing new, as he reveals.
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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The new pocket-dictionary of the English and German languages. In two parts, I. English and German - II. German and English. Composed chiefly after the dictionaries of Adelung, Johnson, and others of the best authorities. In which the parts of speech, and the Genders of the German Nouns, are properly distinguished; each Word accented according to its just and natural Pronunciation; and the Irregularities of the English and German Verbs duly marked. With an alphabetical list of the most usual Christian and proper names, and of the most remarkable Places in the known World.
Date: 1800- Books
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Dictionnaire international français-anglais : comprenant tous les mots de la langue usuelle et de la langue littéraire ... la prononciation du français figurée pour les anglais / par H. Hamilton et E. Legros.
Legros E.Date: 1876- Books
New English - Tibetan dictionary / Norbu Chophel.
Date: 1985- Books
Scientific terms : English - Arabic.
Date: 1982,1984- Books
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The new pocket-dictionary of the French and English languages. In two parts. I. French and English. II. - English and French. Containing All the Words in General Use, And authorized by the best Writers. The several Parts of Speech-The Genders of the French Noung-The Accents of the English Words, for the Use of Foreigners-An alphabetical List of the most usual Christian and Proper Names; and of the most remarkable Places in the known World. By Thomas Nugent, LL.D.
Nugent, Thomas, 1700?-1772.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]