v/l reversal - revelation

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Fri Dec 5 22:57:28 UTC 2008


Relevation did not pass muster for my spell checker. It is a word ("a
raising or lifting up according to the Free Dictionary), and has 97K
Googits, but I think most are l/v reversals for revelation. The Urban
Dictionary in fact has two entries clearly meaning revelation. BB

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