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Jun 15, 2007

This week's theme
Archaic words

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stalworth
selcouth
peradventure
dehort
latchet

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Toponyms coined after places in Ireland

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latchet

(LATCH-it)

noun: A shoe strap to fasten a shoe on the foot; a shoelace.

[From Middle English lachet, from Old French lachet, from lacet.]

"Why do I tell you all this, dear? Because it is heavy on my heart. Because I walk the Valley of Humility. Because I am subduing myself to permanent consciousness of my unworthiness to unloose the latchet of Dr. Barritz's shoe."
Ambrose Bierce; A Lady From Redhorse; 1891.

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