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Kevin Haw writes in to tell us about World of Warcraft and Philosophy, a new collection of essays and stories:

Police veteran critiques TSA procedure - Boing Boing 2009

Kevin Haw writes in to tell us about World of Warcraft and Philosophy, a new collection of essays and stories:

Boing Boing 2009

How the "Haw," or small enclosure, received its name is doubtful: there may have been some unrecorded connection with pardons or indulgences.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock

(_Lifting the other yoke-collar from beside his chair, he holds the whittled thong next to it, comparing the two with expert eye_) and "Haw" to him.

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

"Haw" and "Whoa," to shout at the animals when it was necessary to turn to the left or the right or to stop altogether.

Hebrew Life and Times 1918

He could hear Henry's mellow, resonant "Haw" and "Gee," as he drove his mule and harrow from end to end of the field, and saw Cobb slowly making his way toward him.

Northern Georgia sketches, 1900

And we may finish the Hawthorn with a short account of its name, which is interesting: -- "Haw," or "hay," is the same word as "hedge" ( "sepes, id est, _haies_," John de Garlande), and so shows the great antiquity of this plant as used for English hedges.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

Sheldonista A.R. informs me that there is actually a name for the eye-boogers that form during the night: "Haw".

Sheldon Comic Strip: The daily webcomic by Dave Kellett 2009

It appeared that he had been the only man there, and when Rosalie's mother said, "I wonder you didn't feel shy, Harold," he said with a funny sort of "Haw" sound in his voice, "Not in the least.

This Freedom 1925

When the coalition brought forward its proposals to use force to clear peace campaigner Brian Haw from Parliament Square, and Tory MPs bayed for the blood of UK Uncut supporters, Labour's frontbench acquiesced.

Letters: New Labour elite still don't get it 2011