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. Tolkien worked on the initial version of the Oxford Dictionary, which focused on words beginning with W ranging from waggle to warlock. He said that he gained more knowledge in those two years than in any other ; and some of the etymologies continued to perplex him for a long time, with him taking many pages of notes on walrus for a lecture he gave at Leeds.

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Tolkien worked on the initial version of the Oxford Dictionary, which focused on words beginning with ‘W’ ranging from waggle to warlock. He said that he “gained more knowledge in those two years than in any other”; and some of the etymologies continued to perplex him for a long time, with him taking many pages of notes on ‘walrus’ for a lecture he gave at Leeds.

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