Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — Were Good Words Once. [ARTICLE]

Were Good Words Once.

The number of obsolete words that are to be found in Webster’s Dictionary is considerably larger than people have any idea of. The following letter, written by an alleged poet to an editor, who had treated his poetry with derision, furnishes some idea of them: “Sir: You have behaved like an impetiginous scrogle 1 Like those who, envious of any moral celsitude, carry their ungicity to the height of creating symposically the fecund words which my pollymathic genius uses with überty to abligate the tongues of the weetless! Sir, you have crassly parodied my own pet words as though they were trangrams. I will not coascervate reproaches —I will oduce a veil over the atramental ingratitude which has chamfered even my indiscerptible heart. lam silent on, the focillatiou which my coadjuvancy must have given you when I offered to become your fantor and adminicle. I will not speak of the lippitude, the oblepsy, you have shown in exacerbating me, one whose genius you should have approached with mental discalceation. So I tell you, without supervacaneous words, nothing will render ignoscibie your conduct to me. I warn you that I would vellicatc your nose if I thought that any moral diarthrosis thereby could be performed—if I thought I should not impignorate my reputation. Go, tachygraphic scrogle, band with your crass inquinatc fantors; draw objectations from the thought, if you can, of having synchronically lost the existimation of the greatest poet since Milton!” And yet all these words are to be found in the dictionary.—[Boston Herald.