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A phone call to Phineas Burling can be revealing.

Phineas Burling is the Chief calligrapher with the Fink and Wiggles Publishing Company, Inc. Fink and Wiggles are, of course, the well known publishers of the NEW MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARY.

According to Burling, the word " kludge " first appeared in the English language in the early fifteen-hundreds.

It was imported into the geographic region of the lowlands between King's Lynn ( then Bishop's Lynn ) and the Isle of Ely by Dutch settlers arriving there to reclaim tidelands of the Wash as rutabaga fields.

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