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		ComputerGuru on Dec 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are there so few children’s books set in the s... There Is No Such Thing As A Dragon by Jack Kent (1974, I think?) has a clearly suburban setting visible when the kid’s dragon cum house on wheels relocates in chase of a bread truck. (When’s the last time you saw a bread truck!?)

iso947 on Dec 28, 2020 [–]

“dragon cum house”

Are you sure it’s a kids book?!

ComputerGuru on Dec 28, 2020 | [–]

See the first/primary dictionary entry: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cum

(Although if I’m being honest, I wouldn’t have expected it to be the first definition.)

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