rwo@raptor.eng.ufl.edu (Pope Everyman) SAYETH:
"I couldn't help but notice that the word "termagant" does not appear
anywhere in Revelation-X. Was this an oversight or was it intentional?"
HOW DARE YOU USE THAT WORD IN OUR PRESENCE????
King Stang
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Subject: Re: Words that don't appear in Revelation-X
From: dudeyp@darwin.cs.orst.edu (Peter Dudey Drake)
sbjohnston@aol.com (SBJohnston) writes:
>Pope Everyman scribbled:
>Yeah, and what about "sackbut" ? I'd have thought that medieval wind
>instruments that are somewhat like a trombone would have figured
>prominently in this work.
Almost as interesting are a couple of words which DO appear, and had
previously been INDEPENDENTLY DISCOVERED by members of my Clench:
"Wenis" (note the subtle but important difference in spelling), and
"merkin". The latter appears on p. 43, and is defined in Peter
Bowler's "The Superior Person's Book of Words" as:
A pubic wig for women, or, to quote Grose's /Dictionary of the
Vulgar Tongue/, "counterfeit hair for women's privy parts."
Do not ask the author to explain this. The lexicographer's
duty is merely to record. To others it remains to remark,
with Ambrose Bierce, "Can such things be?"
Imperial Megapope Yipping Mundungus, Order of the Golden Parentheses
Our Lady of the Name of This Church, Recursive
"Luke, if you want to study the ways of the Force, you're going to
need to come up with a bit more money than that."
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