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Thanks for correcting my ignorance, everyone. I suppose I should have guessed, actually - lots of younger churches over here don't have bells, but on the other hand there aren't too many younger churches anyway.

On the subject of centuries-dead infants, though, I'm not too sure. Have you ever seen a baby zombie? They always seem to be grown up. Where are they all? At home with their mummies?

Well, I thought I'd let him down gently.

CHip, are you serious? Most churches in England ring their bells at least every Sunday morning.

"Yf thou were a latyn tretise ich wolde putte thee in the vernacular."

Thanks, but I don't date anyone who's been dead more than a century.

"Platypodes."

So that's what the plural of "platypus" is. How lovely. I'll have to try and bring platypodes up in casual conversation some time.

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