When I was young, this turned my skin pink and caused horripilation.
But its principal targets are the legions of perfectly acceptable words that should not appear more than once in a piece of writing — "legions," in the numerical sense, among them, and words like "expunges," "circumvallate," "horripilation," "disjunct," "defunct," "amalgamate," "ameliorate," "defecate," and a few thousand others.
This anthology is bursting with them: tristful, howbeit, swinge-bucklers, horripilation, sooth, beseem, maugre, haute, orgulous, agnize, beadsmen, racqueters, scatterlings, ribalds, wasselers, giglots, ronyons, bonarobas, ostent, amort, nathless … Ods Pitikins!
But its principal targets are the legions of perfectly acceptable words that should not appear more than once in a piece of writing—"legions," in the numerical sense, among them, and words like "expunges," "circumvallate," "horripilation," "disjunct," "defunct," "amalgamate," "ameliorate," "defecate," and a few thousand others.
Some kind of energy field is attached to it; at close range it blows up iPods and (bad news for incautious oldsters) pacemakers, and sends a gust of "horripilation" through the human nervous system.
