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Reading Reading, by yarb
Words I have learned that I can't ever use in ordinary speech because none of my friends know them., by CatKisses
Chromonyms, by mollusque
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This sounds so much like a modern no-time-to-say-the-whole-word form, that I was surprised to learn it goes back to the 18th century.
I think I like it.
The Thespian, sipping the subfusc fluid, sighs 'I always drink it. Tastes exactly like draught Guinness.'
- Peter Reading, Festival, from Fiction, 1979
"...Stephen, looking stuffed and sullen in his rarely-worn good coat, a comparatively subfusc garment."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 57