chresmomancy
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On charming sentences and sifting the OED.
For the most part, I didn’t have fun at school. But I always enjoyed the days when we were given lists of new spelling words and told to look up their definitions and write a sentence using each. Sure, eventually we’d have a spelling test that I would fail — I scored between zero and…
Anne Carson, archaic words, Autobiography of Red, Bartholomaeus, capnomancy, chresmomancy, definitions, dictionary, divination, English spelling, Ferretcraft, griffins, Henry Swinburne, language, natural enemy of a crab, OED, On the Property of Things, Oxford English Dictionary, Plainswater, Samuel Hageman, sentences, spelling conventions, the ravings of a dorm-mate on psychedelic drugs, unrequited love, words
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