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21st century tech vindicates an 18th century underdog. [D.R.H.]

When full dictionaries began to be made, their compilers discovered that the list of un- words possible in English is almost as big as the language. Many of them are perfectly valid and perfectly unneeded. They never have formed a part of the vocabulary. They stand stacked and ready and unused in its cellar.

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dear Doug your post is not unread :3

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I am left unsad, so to say with nothing unsaid.

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This article is unbelievable. That is, unbelievably interesting!

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The words uncouth implies
not , or without, couth.
hence without knowing what behaviour or characteristic is being addressed I have lived in fear of not being couth,.
I have also been tormented by underpants, - what does derpants mean? Is being without, or not derpants something that should be avoided or unavoided; could they be unborrowed , or unforgiving., or does it refer to the Cheyne-Stokes breathing pattern?