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Ammon Shea

“Along with tableity (the condition of being a table) and paneity (the state of being bread), cellarhood is a wonderful example of the spectacular ways English has of describing things that no ever thinks it necessary to describe.”

Ammon Shea, Reading the Oxford English Dictionary: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
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