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Meaning and usage of "don", "master", and "brigadier"
I'm reading The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett. The story is based at Cambridge University and the ideas of "don", "master", and "brigadier" in the following paragraph puzzles me:
Vivian prefers …
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meaning of "above boord handsum"
I'm reading an article that talks about Yankee English and it quotes the following paragraph written by Thomas Chandler Haliburton:
"...you are a careless kind of a man that way, and let your shil …