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Thanks Rapa -very interesting and so sad that he really did not gain monetarily but mortgaged his home so the 2nd edition could be printed. He really believed in what he was doing.
Having spent a number of years in Connecticut, I can attest they still use some of those words there. I met a few fopdoodles in the Hartford area. They are basically yankeedoodles who have gone astray. Seriously, it's amazing how some of the language of yesterday has not carried over well into the modern lexicon, while other words have.
Learned a new word today
Webster tells me it means: marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol
The word appeared in one of Doris Lessing's novels
Abstemious? Not a chance :))
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