Today’s splendid found word, courtesy of C.S Lewis: whigmaleerie:
2. A whim, fanciful notion, a crotchet, fad, vagary (Source: Dictionary of the Scots Language)
“...I’m talking of science, not of Butler and Bergson and Shaw and all those whigmaleeries.”
-p. 49, The Dark Tower story fragment by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
Despite the modernization of our world - those things that are whigmaleerie are required for sanity.
ReplyDeleteAnd 'tis a grand and lovely word!
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