[PW] Spam: Re: Carter's wormkiller, 1902

[FERGUSON Timothy]

All worms are literally vermin.  The word literally means "worms", from vermes.

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Peter Macinnis

> To him, they were literally vermin, evil and slimy, the spawn, perhaps, of Grendel (who 
> was, let us recall, referred to as a worm!)

Source?  That seems unlikely, given that Beowulf cuts off his arm and hangs it in his hall.



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