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In Edison Junior High School - 7th or 8th grade - we had a course that was intended to encourage kids to expand their reading interests and explore. I think that's where I encountered inkhorn terms for the first time (may be fautly in my memory of this, but it will have to do unless I experience a better recall). We read an excerpt from Ben Jonson's "The Poetaster". (Now that I think of it, it may have been in 10th grade humanities class...? Anyway - ) I was delighted with the sparkling word play - the absurdity on par with Monty Python, psychadelic-trip-inspired off-the-wall stuff, and Lewis Carroll-like nonsense. It appealed to that prominent aspect of my nature, as well as the parts of me that were drawn to the rhythms of words and speech.

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