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The historical online newspapers provided by the British Library (1) are excellent for wordstuffs unfiltered by modern agendas or sensibilities.
For instance, the London ?Daily News' of August 3 1918 on page 4 (click on the head ?Under the Clock' and scroll down the popup window) refers to rumours of famine in Britain:
?Quite a business has sprung up in the sending of meat and butter from India and South Africa; and I tasted yesterday some very nice "spiced hump", a beef joint unknown to me, but the product, one supposes, of the Indian humped cattle.'
The solitary online reference to ?spiced hump' is in a 1903 piece of Raj fiction (2) by Canadian journo Sara Jeanette Duncan (3).
(1) http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/
(2) http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/drama/ThePoolintheDesert/chap2.html (3) http://www.brantford.library.on.ca/sduncan.shtml
For instance, the London ?Daily News' of August 3 1918 on page 4 (click on the head ?Under the Clock' and scroll down the popup window) refers to rumours of famine in Britain:
?Quite a business has sprung up in the sending of meat and butter from India and South Africa; and I tasted yesterday some very nice "spiced hump", a beef joint unknown to me, but the product, one supposes, of the Indian humped cattle.'
The solitary online reference to ?spiced hump' is in a 1903 piece of Raj fiction (2) by Canadian journo Sara Jeanette Duncan (3).
(1) http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/
(2) http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/drama/ThePoolintheDesert/chap2.html (3) http://www.brantford.library.on.ca/sduncan.shtml
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[nq:1]The historical online newspapers provided by the British Library (1) are excellent for wordstuffs unfiltered by modern agendas or sensibilities. ... (click on the head ?Under the Clock' and scroll down the popup window) refers to rumours of famine in Britain:[/nq]
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[nq:1](1) http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com
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[nq:1](1) http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com
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