Bill Bryson Quotes

The Inhabitants Of England In The Age Of Chaucer Commonly Used An Expression, To Be In Hide And Hair, Meaning To Be Lost Or Beyond Discovery. But Then It Disappears From The Written Record For Four Hundred Years Before Resurfacing, Suddenly And Unexpectedly, In America In 1857 As Neither Hide Nor Hair. It Is Dearly Unlikely That The Phrase Went Into A Linguistic Coma For Four Centuries. So Who Was Quietly Preserving It For Four Hundred Years, And Why Did It So Abruptly Return To Prominence In The Sixth Decade Of The Nineteenth Century In A Country Two Thousand Miles Away?

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