Origins Quiz — Friday, October 30, 2026

What verb for cutting the rude bits out of a book comes from the surname on an 1818 ten-volume Shakespeare with the indecencies removed? The sister who had quietly done most of the work on the 1807 first edition got no credit, and the verb, coined in 1836, is not a compliment.

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