THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

I thought of the old adage that you could tell something about a nation by its vocabulary, Inuit having a dozen words for snow, Bedouin for sand, Meso-Americans for tubers, and so on.  Serbo-Croatian had a disturbingly large number of words for butchering. One of them was kundačiti, which meant ‘to beat with the butt end of a rifle’.

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