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Monday, August 7, 2006

Today’s Word

erl-king
noun (in Germanic mythology) a bearded giant or goblin believed to lure little children to the land of death.
—origin late 18th cent.: from German Erlkönig ‘alder-king’, a mistranslation of Danish ellerkonge ‘king of the elves’.

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