I read a great book recently called The Seas, by Samantha Hunt. I chose it because it was ocean-themed and won a National Book Award, but the part that stuck with me and kept me awake after bedtime was about bread.
A recurring theme in the book is dictionaries and definitions. This one sent me down an etymology rabbit hole:
lady—n. from hlaf: loaf, and -d…
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