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Old 11-23-2014, 12:20 AM   #94
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Originally Posted by trichobezoar View Post
*pulling out The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten* An archaic definition of a forgotten word:

An abcedarian is a person or book that teaches the alphabet; the word is formed from the first four (or five) letters of the alphabet.
Isn't that an "abecedarian"?

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And apparently it can also be an "a-b-c-darian" but the dashes are important.
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