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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
From Swift by Way of Johnson
From Dr. Johnson's Dictionary (published 1755):
Modernism: Deviation from the ancient and classical manner. A word invented by Swift.
Scribblers send us over their trash in prose and verse, with abominable curtailings and quaint modernisms. -SWIFT
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