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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd be wary of accusing Mr Dexter of unfamiliarity with words. As well as being a writer of detective stories, he's also well-known as a compiler and solver of cryptic crosswords. I strongly suspect that he knows a lot more about words than you or I are ever likely to.
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You seem to have missed my disclaimer:
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Knowing nothing of the book in question[...]
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Perhaps I should have said book, nor its author. Regardless, the quoted passage was wordy.