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100s of origins!

Posted by Millard Fillmore on February 12, 2000

In Reply to: 100s of origins! posted by James Briggs on February 12, 2000

: If you look on my web page - www.madasafish.com/ ~jbriggs you will find several hundred origins that I have traced over the years. In spite of this effort there are still some I don't know! Feel free to browse.

Well, I did visit, and the first phrase I looked up "an axe to grind" identified Ben Franklin as a U.S. President. Better fact-checking needed?

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