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Some Good Words

SUBSIDIARITY. "Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority. " A Romanist term. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity.

GLORIUMPTIOUS: GLoriously wonderful. (Dahl)

FROTHBUNGLING: Stupid (Dahl)

MUGGLED: COnfused (Dahl-- see Harry Potter too)

TROGGLEHUMPER: A nightmare (Dahl)

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I've set up this blog for myself, as a commonplace book, with the idea that it might also be useful for outside readers. That is why the topics are idiosyncratic. I see that most of my readers are directed here by Google searching rather than being regular readers.

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