Alasdair Gray mainly

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> ...The British history
> narrated there sounds eccentric, or at least
> idiocentric, to me, but I am not sufficiently knowledgeable to
> object to it.
>
> [Is "idiocentric" in any authoritative
> dictionary?  It's not in the OED, nor in my
> Webster's New World 3rd College (1989),]

maybe you were aiming for "idiosyncratic".

arnold

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