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ive been using words from the dictionary of obscure sorrows not knowing he made them all up
>If, however, you find a word that sounds as if someone just made it up, rest assured: it was. Just like every other word in the English language. If you trace back the etymology of every word we speak—and vow and teach and kill and die for—each one began its life as a barbaric yawp, untamed and untranslatable, born in the dirt, starving, hysterical, naked, dragging itself from tongue to tongue for centuries before it could get its foot in the door of the lexicon.
is she right though? does she have a point?
