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   Ross Clark to All   
   William Barnes died (7/10/1886)   
   07 Oct 24 22:28:27   
   
   From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   "The Dorset Poet" (born 1801).   
   Wrote over 800 poems about his native county, in literary dialect.   
   Also an "amateur philologist", and was an advocate of Anglo-Saxon purism   
   in vocabulary. Some of his words:   
      
   fore-say (preface)   
   speech-craft (grammar)   
   speech-lore (philology)   
   book-lore (literature)   
   thing-word (noun)   
   mark-word (adjective)   
   twin-word (synonym)   
   wordling (particle)   
   birdlore (ornithology)   
   unfrienden (alienate)..."anticipates social networking", saith Crystal.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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