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Word of the day

Courtesy of VisualThesaurus.com, and no, I couldn’t believe it either when it arrived in my in box: “Playwright.”

Good Wrighting Word of the Day

Playwright

Of the half dozen English words ending in -wright in use today, playwright is the only one in which the creative act is writing, and the latest coinage (17th century) of them all. The -wright part is from very old English and denotes a maker of something, as in shipwright.

I’m betting the contemptible Robert Caisley already knew all this.

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