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Originally Posted by cal828
Joly, your use of the word "perspicacity" made me laugh. It's not a word you see every day and probably one that I would avoid because I know I couldn't say it without tripping over my tongue. Seems like it belongs in the old tongue twister category along with "Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers."  |
Cal, I guess that I have a lot of similarly obscure words clunking around the back of my head. The product of years of reading and more than a little writing. Sometimes they just seep out. Glad to have provided amusement.
In a much earlier phase of my life, I was actively involved in sports car rallies, usually as a contestant but occasionally as the course organizer. I rallymastered one event for the New England Region of SCCA in 1974 or so that required the contestants to very carefully apply the instructions to properly follow the course, and created situations in which the failure to do so would lead to timing errors or off course excursions. The event was called "Perspicacity."