Human kindness.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

Some years ago I came across the proverb 'Nothing turns sourer than milk' in A History of Norfolk, published in 1885, by Walter Rye. I found the same proverb in a book of proverbs, published in the 1950s. Subsequently I came across it in The Vocabulary of East Anglia by Robert Forby, published in 1830. Reading between the lines in ...

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