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To Stalk a Tree Part 2

Within Greenwich Park are many ancient sweet chestnuts – you accompany on encountering one, and then listen to Greg Packman, a former tree officer for Royal Parks (of which Greenwich is one) telling us a bit more about sweet chestnuts there.

Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh
Recorded in Greenwich, London, UK

30 Days of Walking

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snaffle, snoodle

These fanciful-sounding words have no definitive origin: They probably just sounded right to someone who was sauntering, which is what they both mean. An Oxford English Dictionary (OED) example from 1821 describes someone “soodling up and down the street.” Credits to Mark Peters.

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