five years after i capitulate to the u.s. english spellchecker my system no longer recognizes honour or labour as valid. analogue looks medieval. also, this being the land of freedom, i no longer know how to use the hyphen. i am a hair's breadth (hairsbreadth?) from alot, although perhaps this transgression should be laid at another door.
it is amazing how thoroughly one's entire philological ideology can be patiently shaped over forty odd years and then resoundingly upturned in half a decade.
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