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Sunday, April 6, 2014

New Vocabulary Sunday


New words and definitions:

Nonceword: A hapax legomenon that appears in the corpus of Shakespeare's work.

Anthropodermic bibliopegy: The practice of binding books in human skin.

New etymologies

Shrapnel: So called in memory of British army Major General Henry Shrapnel, d. 1842.

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