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Laurence Urdang [1927–2008] (NYT obit)

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This is not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians. Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgef�hl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. The New York Times Everyday Reader�s Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, and Mispronounced Words (1972).

By coincidence though OT

http://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.php/topics/187473/NYT_s_omission#Post187473

Dahil, don't know whether this will help if you haven't already pulled it up

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dalehileman

heh

I lol'd.

Ha!

Like orchids, poisenous flowers of wordology.[ the quote I mean]
Edit:(btw. I have two orchid plants I attend to very carefully)

Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu

heh

I lol'd.

So did I.

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This is not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians. Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgef�hl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. The New York Times Everyday Reader�s Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, and Mispronounced Words (1972).