Where did you learn that word?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=Aspidistra]
Now for bonus points - who knows what she was (mis-)quoting?

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Beatrix Potter’s Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (I think - definitely Beatrix Potter). That’s where I learned the word soporific.

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[QUOTE=Aspidistra]
I learned the word ‘copacetic’ on this board
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“Copacetic” appears not once, but twice in James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia. Somehow, I found that odd.

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[QUOTE=ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]
Beatrix Potter’s Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (I think - definitely Beatrix Potter). That’s where I learned the word soporific.
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Ka-ching! :cool:

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[QUOTE=Chronos]

…I only learned the word “Apotheosis” a few years ago, from the title of a Babylon 5 episode. It’s the Greek equivalent of “deification”…
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Quite so. Behold Brumidi’s “The Apotheosis of Washington,” from the inner dome of the U.S. Capitol, above the rotunda: http://z.about.com/d/godc/1/0/E/7/apotheosis.jpg