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Welcome aBoard, Susan! You hit the very first word in one of my favorites of Anu's themes:
words that go out of their way to not apply to themselves.
From March of 1999:
phonetic
abbreviation
monosyllabic (Hi, Mechana!)
hemidemisemiquaver I LOVE that word!
descender
diminutive
opuscule
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