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The fourth Knave
Over the past few days, I’ve been trying to puzzle out the meaning of "The plant is the three pages just starred by an asterisk," ...
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Following up on the idea that the pecked are no longer alone in their bodies , reader Ben Pratt has brought to my attention these remarks by... -
Disclaimer: My terms are borrowed (by way of Terry Boardman and Bruce Charlton) from Rudolf Steiner, but I cannot claim to be using them in ... -
That's Bruce's coinage, from an email, though likely one that's been independently invented by others as well. I thought it was ...
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Yes, they do seem like 'Backslang' (as we called it).
And then there is the (supposedly) longest real word in English - Antidisestablishmentarianismway. It too seems like backslang.
Although kids prefer Upercalifragilisticexpialidociousway - the word was, allegedly, invented just to be long.
(Fairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochllanway is not, of course, in English.)
I don't know, Bruce, some of those alleged "words" really make me underway.
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