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Quainticity
January 11,2005
Don’t reach for your dictionaries. The word does not exist. But it should, to describe quaint things (in the old-fashioned sense, not Alberto Gonzales’ revised definition that damns the Geneva Conventions as “quaint”), such as the precious lathe work on a Japanese toothpick that allows the top section to be detached and used as a toothpick rest. Or the small red or pink caps that are often placed on the heads of o-jizou-sama statuettes at small shrines dedicated to children around Japan.
Fact is that quainticities are rapidly disappearing from the planet and I thought a word should be created fast to allow future generations of historians to research them.
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