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Questions related to English vocabulary, forms, phrases, and syntax that is now more commonly seen in written literature than in everyday speech.
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What does 'sanding a doorstep' mean?
In Yorkshire the thresholds were regularly scoured with holystone, a type of sandstone. It was common to see housewives on their knees with a pail of water and a rectangular or square holystone vigor …