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Fascinating short piece on accounting for the oddness of The Wind in the Willows, a book which has always perplexed me a great deal.
https://blog.oup.com/2010/08/wind-in-the-willows/
I wrote my own rather (massively) less well-informed speculation a few years back, without having read the link above.
