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Why are seasonal winter songs called Christmas "Carols"? From a Cambridge University glossary of words from Chaucer:
caroll, a song or daunce
https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/haphazard/extra/language/chaucer/c.html
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It is definitely ‘cold enough for snow’, and so we thought to share this novella with the appropriate title on this beautiful but cold 16 December with you:
Au possess beautiful observational skills, close to a stream of consciousness, but contained within the lyrical rhythm of her sentences. It is a beautifully written, gentle description of a daughter’s visit to Japan together with her... (1/2)
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