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Aug 5, 2025
This week’s themeLewis Carroll This week’s words phlizz ![]() ![]() Illustration: Harry Furniss in Sylvie and Bruno 1889
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with Anu Gargphlizz
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: Something existing only in name: an illusion or empty semblance.
ETYMOLOGY:
Coined by Lewis Carroll in the novel Sylvie and Bruno (1889). Earliest
documented use: 1889.
USAGE:
“What was his image of her, but a phlizz, but a fraud?” John Galsworthy; Silver Spoon; Grosset & Dunlap; 1926. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are
hatched. -Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (5 Aug
1850-1893)
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