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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote2020-02-15 04:53 pm
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noonlight

In 2003, I quoted Terry Pratchett on the unfortunate fact that there's no such word as "noonlight." Today, I checked the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, and the word is there.

[personal profile] cosmolinguist 2020-02-15 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The OED has it too, first citation in 1598. Looks like Terry was wrong, it has been a word for a long time. :) And the citations go up to 1993 so I guess it's still being used. That's cool. It is the kind of word that there should be.
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[personal profile] conuly 2020-02-16 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
I guess everybody is wrong once in their life.
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[personal profile] cjsmith 2020-02-16 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, how nifty that it’s there!