Word of the Day: WRITINGER


ETYMOLOGY
from writing (vbl. n.) + -er


EXAMPLE
“…and that of the shape of the x from a form like theMS. & to the modern one, which occurs towards the end of the volume, may help some future and more learned writinger to settle the date more closely than I can…”

From: Bishop Percy’s Folio Manuscript
By F. J. Furnivall (Forewords)
J.W. Hales, 1867

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