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Old 01-06-2013, 07:54 PM   #144
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
A few more words I ran into today that are used in Burt's Polish->English definitions: mephitic, orthopnoea, amphiscious. I wonder if these words were more commonly known in the 19th century, or if the person who wrote them just looked them up in some other reference works?
Mephitic is less obscure than the others; it's still actively, if only occasionally, used.
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