Reading the Merriam Webster Dictionary Backwards
September 16, 2014 Tuesday
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witenagemot: [Old English: witena sages or advisers] \wit' ten ag' ah mote\
an Anglo-Saxon council to advise the king
a 'gemot' is an Anglo-Saxon judicial assembly…if that helps at all...
an imaginary two legged creature with wings that resembles a dragon
I love this word because I came across it in a beautiful book called The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Invention, by Cathrynne Valente. The book is incredibly inventive and literate, and received innumerable awards and best book mentions. For example, as I recall, the gentle Wyvern who is the protector of the girl is named "A though L." Why? Because his father was a dragon and his Mother was a library… It is a fantasy book for middle-school children you would say but…it's not. Here's a typical review: “One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century.”—Time magazine.
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