A new word "oxt"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/17/2014 02:35 PM, W Brewer wrote:

><next> is infelicitously ambiguous:
>proximal:  'nearest' (the etymological meaning);
>distal:  'skip one token past nearest'.
>This infelicitude has caused me no end of psychic distress.

Equal to the distress caused me by "turn of the century".  I'm never 
sure whether to visualize the old man with the scythe or the baby in diapers.

Joel 

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