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The spell-checker on my Microsoft Word 2000 program questioned my use of the word "inobvious" and recommended that I use "unobvious" insted. Ready to ridicule the byte-heads at Microsoft, I consulted the One-Look On-Line Dictionary and it told me that there is no such word. Alas. Can it be? I have used this word for decades. Am I speaking English here?
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OED doesn't even have it. Have you checked wwftd? Or maybe you should switch to disobvious (pre-cross-threading).
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formerly known as etaoin...
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MSW and OED may fail you, but you will no doubt be pleased to learn that the US end-all-and-be-all of lexicons (W3I) gives inobvious, with the obvious etymology in + obvious but no citations.
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I'm feeling much better already.
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Hey maybe they'll cite you and you can be even more famous. 
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"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."
~ Cato the Elder
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formerly known as etaoin...
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See now, that's why you need a monument.
I have no clue who Cato the Elder. Now if he had a monument, I'd go, "ooo, who was he, and why was he special enough to earn a monument?"
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Ah yes, old "Carthago delenda est" himself. Bumptious, conservative to a fault and as full of Roman gravitas as any modern prig ...
And the grandson wasn't much better, either!
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I suspect you're thinking of his great-grandson: Cato the Younger, die-hard (quite literally) opponent of Julius Caesar.
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Yeah, yeah. Cato the Toddler. Waddever. It was all a bit before my time. Bruce Willis would have approved, n'est-ce pas? Cato II died hard, and with a vengeance! 
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*wonders what it would be like to spend the rest of eternity with an obelisk crushing one's skull*
*makes a mental note to ask Joan how painful her last bar-b-q was to see if it would compare*
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