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A Sense of Congruity

A Sense of Congruity

“Eat your fruitals and vegetals” Said my mother Never As a Curious Word devotee, every so often I like to consult H.W. Fowler for a good hand-slapping, (as it were). Since ‘vegetal’ is considered, as a word, ‘obsolete’, an ‘archaism’, and no one can slice and dice those as effectively as Fowler does in his handbook of Modern English Usage, let’s see what he has to say on the subject. ‘Archaism’……

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