March 29, 2024
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Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan, is a small estate in the rolling-hills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, eighty miles west of Philadelphia. It was much the same 165 years ago, an unlikely place to find a presidential candidate who would be dubbed a “doughface.”
One joy in reading PCH.net is never knowing which educational path Professor Tim will lead us down. This time we learn the history of dictionaries from the definition of one single word. And, when he concludes with a “dictionary” joke, it “Ha, Ha!” to the end.