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[wilperegrine]

One example will suffice to illustrate the strangeness of books to medieval man.  The word grammar--the first step in the course of classical study that molded all educated men from Plato to Augustine--will be mispronounced by one barbarian tribe as "glamour."  In other words, whoever has grammar--whoever can read--possesses magic inexplicable.

pp 59-60, How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill