NOT A WORD!

[Michael Adams]

Arnold's comments on "trepidacious" were timely!  In History of the English Language today, we started to discuss regulation in the Early Modern period, the inkhorn controversy, etc., Jonson, Lowth, and Campbell, on our way to Johnson's dictionary.  I read the entire e-mail to the class -- it very effectively linked the current to the Early Modern and provided that sliver of relevance so useful in teaching history to the young.