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|    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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