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Author: Jean B.
Date: Feb 7, 2008 13:38
the worthless word for the day is: symphoric [fr. Gk sumphora, mishap, calamity] /sim FOR ik/ accident prone, clumsy <elderly and increasingly symphoric - D. Grambs> "Who would have endured in this place to have seen two such words as the phthano-paranomic or crime- preventing, and the phthano-symphoric or calamity- preventing, branches of the police?" - Jeremy Bentham, Principles of
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