Sara Maitland
Feb 13, 2020
2 minutes
Illustration: Lynn Hatzius
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“What is a common?” Or “what is ‘common land’?” people ask. The answer is so complicated, frankly, that whatever I tell you in 600 words someone will object to – and they’ll probably be right.
We’re not helped here by the oddity of the word ‘common’ itself – which can mean ‘frequent’, ‘occurring often’, or a person whose
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