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DJ Fleg will split duties with Poland’s DJ Plash for the women’s competition Friday and the men’s event Saturday.

Using hooked poles and pickaxes, ice harvesters broke the frozen water into convenient pieces, and "with icicles dangling from the fringe of their ragged trousers, turned up higher than their knees, they plash and dabble in the deadly cold water to bring the ice ashore", wrote Greenwood in the 1870s.

The murmur and footfalls of patrons mingled with the plash of the water, both sounds echoing off the domed and coffered ceiling and creating a pleasant hum of white noise.

He dodged and ducked behind Sarai, into whom Ruby caromed in a plash of sodden, icy silk.

Best of all may be Andrew O’Hagan’s contribution: “clart” and “clarty,” for “mud” and “muddy”—which he follows up with a rush of other, lost mud-words: slub, plash, blash, and stabble, before including the Suffolk word “durg,” for mud that has manure mixed into it, which is one of those words it’s hard to know how the rest of us have managed without.