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   Dorothy J Heydt to jeff.urs@gmail.com   
   Re: Tolkien trained as a WW2 codebreaker   
   19 Sep 09 15:18:46   
   
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   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <3c4c123e-0d0e-4e30-b3b9-96c6b852ff0f@d23g2000vbm.googlegroups.com>,   
   Jeff Urs   wrote:   
   >On Sep 18, 11:12 pm, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:   
   >> This is more than probable.  The Inklings read chapters out   
   >> loud to one another, rather than making lots of extra copies   
   >> so everybody could read one (no xeroxes in those days).   
   >> Occam's Razor decrees that Lewis simply assumed how to spell   
   >> it, and assumed wrong.   
   >   
   >And there was the word "numinous" to help him along.   
      
   So there was, and that was a favorite word of Lewis's.   
      
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