So, twice in one day, I came across a one of those curious words that we only ever seem to use in negation. And to my surprise, on looking them up, I discovered that the "naked" versions of the words weren't back-renderings, as I would have expected ... they are both, in fact, real (though largely antiquated, now) words that existed before the forms *we* commonly use now came to be.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, I give to you:
effable and feck.
(Darn, I like that last one. Feck. Feck, feck, feck, feck, feck. Hee.)
Posted by gris at September 13, 2004 11:52 PM