odd words

Aug 19, 2005 11:56

In the course of ordering books for the library, I ran across a review of Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers: A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the 20th Century by Rosemarie Ostler (Oxford, 2004). The end of the review addresses the three key words in the title; I found the framing of the words amusing ( Read more... )

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dolmena August 19 2005, 23:13:30 UTC
Wow, and I thought of Heinlein's *Waldo.*

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