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Bureau of Lexical Salvage
Recovering the origins of words the sea is believed to have worn down. The Bureau holds that no word crosses water unchanged, and has never accepted a correction from a department that works on land.
The Word "Tattoo" Is a Worn-Down Contraction of "Tortuga"
Île de la Tortue sits off the north coast of Hispaniola, and for most of the seventeenth century it was the busiest buccaneer harbour in the
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