exceptions

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America Had No Terror Phase

Butterfield named the habit of writing history from its ending in 1931, and it is still the default shape of a textbook. Brinton built the template that produces it, and made it useful by recording where his own cases refused to fit.

22 August 20265 min read

retrodiction exceptions provenance

etymology pseudohistory

Oll Korrect

Three dictionaries of record carried the wrong origin of OK until 1961. The discipline that eventually settled it had, since 1878, required every exception to be named.

18 August 20265 min read

regularity exceptions backronym