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Squib (); a brief satirical piece of writing or speech. I never heard of this word, but came across it while browsing for classes to follow; one of the examination requirements was to write a 'squib style article'. Never heard of the word before.

Don't you mean: non-magical person born to wizarding parents.

'squib' reminds me of another:
dud : a bomb/shell that fails to explode;; extended to mean anything that doesn't perform the way that it should/is-expected-to

Yesterday I typed "swarf" when I meant to type "dwarf" and discovered it's an actual English word with the technical meaning "the waste chips or shavings from metalworking or a saw cutting wood" or "the grit worn away by use of a grindstone or whetstone, being particles of the material being cut and of the cutting stone itself".

^ Cognate to dutch zwerf / zwerven ' to roam' / zwerver 'homeless person' ?

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Yes, you're right. I seem to have overlooked the OE meaning in the article on "swerve", sorry.

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On a mostly unrelated note, I think geswearf is my new favorite word (of the day, anyway). Man I love Old English.

Tell me about it. It has the craziest words. I like steorra.

PG is also fun: *dumbaz, *hwazuh

All those final z's do make it look kind of "X-TREME!" I'm tempted to start calling friends "my manniz."

ey manniz, hwazuuuuh?
nothingen muchiz

justaz he2r chillijandz!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/furze (synonyms: gorse, whin)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeve_%28England%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_leet

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Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.

Gorse and furze, really? Why not rat and vole and shrew and mouse as well.

cos less rare I guess

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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!