paraleipsis said this should be a meme

Apr 15, 2008 19:17

and I think she is right, because this sort of thing is weirdly compelling, so I am attempting to pass it along.

Words angevin2 Has Added to Her MS Word Custom Dictionary

Actus
Alzada
apologise
Apostata
appeareth
Athlone
Bagot
Bakhtinian
Beame
beareth
becometh
behoof
bewray
Blackheath
Bocking
Bohun
Boulay
Britishness
Buc
Buc's
buildeth
Caernarvon
Calphurnia
Cheyney
chiefest
codedly
Cokayne's
colour
cottes
Coucy
Crécy
Cyneris
Danter
darest
Darthur
daw
Defert
demeanours
Derridean
diagetically
dishonested
dodgily
dousings
Dunstable
e'er
Egerton
em
emplotment
enamoured
Englished
enow
ere't
erst
extradiagetically
fangle
fangles
favoured
fay
feh
Forker
Gan
Gaveston
gettest
glancingly
goest
Gog's
Gravelines
groat
heroicized
historicization
historiographical
historiographically
Holinshed
Holinshed's
iconographically
i'faith
imagemaking
inspecificity
is't
Italophobia
Janus
Kantorowicz
Kantorowicz's
Kentishmen
kneeified
lability
Lacan
Launcecrona
Lavagnino
Leadenhall
loaden
Louis
lovest
MacGuffin
Marshalsea
masquers
masquing
Masten
mazèd
Mazzio
McKisack
Menon
metatheatrical
Methought
milieux
mischiefs
misliking
Mordred
Morte
Mowbray
Mowbray's
multivalence
multivocality
narratively
Nashe
Nashe's
need'st
Nobs
nonspeaking
o'th
ourself
overdetermined
Parfitt
Paster
Peele's
performativity
periodization
Philippa
Philippa's
piked
pissant
Polonian
polysemous
Prithee
problematize
problematizes
proleptically
protectorship
Puttenham's
Rackin
recontextualization
Redeless
reductio
reinterral
Rickhill's
Rossiter
Routledge
ruinate
Saint
sayest
say'st
Scroope
secundus
seemeth
sempstery
Servingman
shalt
shunneth
Sirrah
Sith
Sodometries
sodomitical
soever
somaticize
somaticized
Southwark
Southwarkman
Southwarkmen
spurner
Stallybrass
Stallybrass's
Stubbes
supertext
Surchargèd
swangledom
swingledom
Symcocke
ta'en
talketh
telos
tertius
tetralogies
tetralogy
thatchers
thine
thinkest
tiler
tilers
Tillyard
Tis
toeified
tother
transgressive
Tresilian
Tresilian's
triumphalist
trow
Twas
Tyburn
unencouraging
ungently
University
unorderly
unremarked
unshamefast
untenability
Vere
Veres
Vere's
viceregent
vild
villeins
Wat
whatso'er
wight
worser
wot

They mostly fall, you may have noticed, into roughly four categories:

1. Names of historical people from EITHER Richard II's reign OR Elizabeth's
2. Names of literary critics/historians
3. Old-fashioned words that turn up in quotations a lot
4. Critical jargon

i have so long keepe shepe, navel-gazing

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