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Old 10-23-2016, 07:06 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
I wish I could remember when I first came across this one, it wasn't Eddings. ... Maybe a John Irving novel. I do remember being fascinated that such a word could exist.

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I'm fond of "antepenultimate", which I first came across in "Maderia, M'Dear" by Michael Flanders.
Love it. I see "tope" appears in that same poem. And neither exist in my spell-checker.
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