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webmaven
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TIL a new word: antepenultimate. Quite lovely.
... and now Google has introduced me to preantepenultimate and propreantepenultimate. Wow.
jcranmer
on Oct 20, 2020
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I'll admit that I had to look up what the proper term was for before-penultimate, since I've never had reason to use it before.
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... and now Google has introduced me to preantepenultimate and propreantepenultimate. Wow.