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Postcard of the Day
(a feature involving a postcard on a day)
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For another postcard thing, see
my old postcard poems tumblr or
its handy archive.
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I'm currently double-posting here & at livejournal. Add me and let me know who you are, and we can read each other's protected posts.
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"What was once thought cannot be unthought."
-- Möbius, The Physicists
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Date: Jan. 12th, 2021 10:52 pm (UTC)1839, flue, shortening of influenza. Spelling flu attested from 1893. The abstraction of the middle syllable is an uncommon method of shortening words in English; Weekley compares tec for detective, scrip for subscription.
(But who sez "tec" for detective? and isn't a scrip a prescription? at least these days?) (Makes you maybe not want to be a Weekley reader.) (hahahaha)
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