After many years, I have finally (and reluctantly) resolved to ask my readers to contribute to this nonprofit blog.

In order to add new posts to this blog, I must (in particular) subscribe to such sites as the Oxford English Dictionary, the British Newspaper Archive and Newspapers.com—and, of course, to WordPress.

Unfortunately, now that I’m living on a small retirement pension, I’m struggling to pay for those subscriptions.

To such an extent that I may have to simply give up on this blog.

If you value the information provided by this blog, please help me carry on tracing word histories by going to the page ‘Donate’.

Thank you.
Pascal Tréguer.