• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Not nobody. My dad got a yearly honorarium for updating the section of the Encyclopedia Brittanica in his area of expertise. We’d also get a free set, and donate the previous one to a school library. I’m sure there were hundreds of others like him back in those days.

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      5 months ago

      honorarium

      New word for me

      Should work for some high-brow accusations one may want to make about the promiscuity of another’s mother