Good Question
From a 10/18/65 letter from Norman Mailer to William F. Buckley, in last week’s New Yorker:
What the hell does emunctory* mean? You have here gone to far, sir, even for Buckley. I even heard one Roman turn over distinctly in his grave as the word went by and whisper to his neighbor, ‘Does that ‘emunctory’ come from the Greek?’
And a few more gems from the stack…
