epicaricacy is by now *almost accepted (it remains to be seen if OED3 will add it). 3870 ghits and it's come up many times here, but this is the original thread.

it looks as though the Dictionary of Early English was Mrs Byrne's source -- at least that's listed in her Bibliography.

-joe (there's no Schadenfreude in this for me) friday

edit: the mystery now is how should one pronounce this veeblefetzer.

Last edited by tsuwm; 08/30/2007 12:22 PM.