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ENGLISH SPOKEN HERE Sia,—Strix wonders if etymologists have ceased to

emalleate certain words. May I express my pious hope that he at any rate will never suffer from pseudolitholychnostaurotic misosis, alopecothereuo- phobia or anhyporyctometallous phobosis?—Yours faithfully,

J. C. WELLS