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Article: A word or two for old romantics.
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- February 13, 2000
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AS Snugglebums tell their Chucky Eggs they love them this Valentine's Day, a Midland academic will be closely monitoring this very English language of love.
Dr Julie Coleman, 33, has spent the past 10 years scouring newspaper columns, the Oxford English Dictionary and the Internet to catalogue hundreds of terms of endearment.
And she claims our choice of pet names speaks volumes about the changing nature of society.
In her study - Love, Sex and Marriage, A Historical Thesaurus - Dr Coleman, an English lecturer at Leicester University, has chartered ...