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actual middle name: "Galaga"
So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun.
— David Thomas Moore (@dtmooreeditor) September 12, 2022
It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period – not more than 150, 200 years – before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-ice-age-footprints-north-america-early.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/09/02/rare-fossil-canada-dinosaur-cormier/
Stone Age humans had unexpectedly advanced medical knowledge, new discovery suggests – CNN
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