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From: Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: self-documenting APL, not COBOL and tricks
Date: 01 Nov 2022 14:50:52 -0400
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Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> writes:

> On 11/1/2022 8:42 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> > The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
> >> On 31/10/2022 23:56, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> >>> On 2022-10-31, Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>>> According to Peter Flass  <peter_flass@yahoo.com>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Any chance he wrote "perspicuous" and you guys misread it?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I've NEVER seen it, and since I regularly do fairly well on the New York
> >>>>>> Times Spelling Bee, it must be very rare indeed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ah, kids these days.  You'll never see PERSPICUOUS in the spelling bee
> >>>>> because it has eight different letters.
> >>>>
> >>>> I clearly remember learning that word in 8th grade English class in
> >>>> Levittown HS. (1963)  Yeah, I suppose I'm not "kids these days".
> >>>
> >>> I had never heard of it prior to this discussion.  But I pulled out
> >>> my 1966-vintage Funk & Wagnalls and there it was.
> >>>
> >>>       Look _that_ up in your Funk & Wagnalls!
> >>>         -- Laugh-In
> >>>
> >> There are hundreds of words that are seldom used.
> >> 'Sartorial' springs to mind.
> > 
> > I think about 'quotidian' daily.
> > 
> 
> I will contribute 'quincunx' and 'abecedarian'.
> 
> Another perhaps unfamiliar word is 'parturition'.

Only after a pregnant pause...

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