Friday, November 21, 2008

Best sentence ever

"With parturiencie for greater births, if a malevolent time disobstetricate not their enixibility." From Sir Thomas Urquhart's {Epsilon}{kappa}{sigma}{kappa}{upsilon}{beta}{alpha}{lambda}{alpha}{upsilon}{rho}{omicron}{nu}; or, the discovery of a most exquisite jewel in 1652. The OED is so much fun. "Disobstetricate" and "enixibility" are nonce-words; enixability is made up from the Latin word for giving birth.

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