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#136144 12/19/04 12:40 PM
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As so often happens, one recipient challenged the use of this term, going so far as to suggest that it is "not a word." Your sense?

He was too busy to give it a second thought, Father Steve.

Actually, I think it's a valuable, thought-provoking coinage.

I would like to suggest one wee change to marry it up with the endless, wearying round of activities, both solemn and festive, we associate with this season.

Why not call it "hectivities"?



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I believe I will actually use "hectivities" during announcements at church this morning.


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Of course this all started with moveable type. Gutenberg was setting the text of the Bible and reached into his font box. Alas, he had run out of the letter, causing him to mutter to himself, "Where the hecticity when you need one?"



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"Where the hecticity when you need one?"

Gutenburg wasn't the type to run out of letters, TEd Rem. He was font of saying so himself.


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one recipient challenged the use of this term, going so far as to suggest that it is "not a word."

Feel free to ask this naysayer my question, "What does it take for a collection of phonemes to qualify as a word?"


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