15.1.04

REASONS TO LOVE HAVING A PHYSICAL DICTIONARY: rather than the online counterpart--in looking up a word just a moment ago, I ran across one of my favorite (and dramatically underused) words: 'inspissate," with a lovely bit of etymology and a quotation from George Barkley which is completely useless in trying to understand what the term means. Oh how I love thee, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
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