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Leam
See Leme.
Bigg
See Big, n. & v.
Cypher
See Cipher.
Forger
One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
Clench
See Clinch.
Pummel
Same as Pommel.
Lagan
See Ligan.
Silage
Short for Ensilage.
Lu
See Loo.
Stein
See Steen.
Saunter
To wander or walk about idly and in a leisurely or lazy manner; to lounge; to stroll; to loiter.
Pike
A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
Pray
See Pry.
Whorl
A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
Pleat
See Plait.
Burthen
See Burden.
Heckle
Same as Hackle.
Kowtow
The same as Kotow.
Price
The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in mon..
Thrust
Thrist.
Defence
See Defense.
Catalog
Catalogue.
Rain
Reign.
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"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
