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Bodliean is often shortened to just The Bod. The Radcliff Camera becomes the Rad Cam. And I wouldn't be surprised if most people didn't know what or why the martyrs
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I don't have the publication cited in support of this etymology to hand, but it seems distinctly improbable at first glance. "Butt ugly" is scarcely a common usage in the UK. My understanding was the term derived from "butterface" (as in "Nice body, but her face...")
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