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• about 5 months ago, galoot said: {removalist}; a word that I will throw out to the Wordie groups. When I read, I always make a note of words I am not familiar with or intrigued by. I was not able to find much on this word, but am assured it will be known here, to the degree that I will gather what may come back from the other members.
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, oroboros said: Hi galoot. Did you mean opsimath above?
• about 1 year, 4 months ago, galoot said: Here are some of the books that have been my favorite sources of words, over the last 4 years:
  "The Lexicon", by William Buckley( one of my heroes, God rest his soul)
  "The Superior Person's Book of Words"
  by Peter Bowler.
  "The Grand Panjandrum"
  by J.N. Hook
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, Prolagus said: Oh, galoot, sorry if I didn't reply to your comment in my profile. As far as I know, Roosevelt had no baculum.
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, reesetee said: Well, you know...work. I suppose harboring a few penis bones on one's desk is worth the pay.
  
  *wonders when that sentence will ever be used again*
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, Prolagus said: Er... I confess ...I'm sorry... I have some penis bones there...
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, reesetee said: Good grief, Pro--is that on your desk, too?
• about 1 year, 5 months ago, Prolagus said: Galoot, argumentum ad baculum makes me think of something else.
• about 1 year, 6 months ago, galoot said: I Love that word; {panoptic}.
  It reminds me, in sound to two other words that I get mixed up: apocopic, and apodictic.