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evin290 commented on the word unshelf
I wrote this in a poem and found out later that it didn't exist as a word. I was entirely surprised. It means simply enough "to remove from a shelf", or metaphorically, "to take from view" or "to obscure", etc.
October 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word unshelf
Did you unwrite it then?
October 26, 2008
mollusque commented on the word unshelf
Why there is information enough on any conceivable subject, and all within ten minutes walk of where we sit and write, to stupify Minerva; and it is as easy to unshelf, pick out, and embroider it upon an editorial, as it is to buy grapes at Bininger's.
--N. P. Willis, 1847, "Ephemera", The Miscellaneous Works of N. P. Willis, p. 48
October 26, 2008
evin290 commented on the word unshelf
Ephemera is indeed a suitable name for the work, mollusque, because the words themselves have vanished. :)
July 26, 2009