Word: prefixed
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...already ahead of them. Cloistered in his Harvard office, he was busy turning out more Lost Positives: licit, iterate, fulgent, prentice, placable, delible, souciant, effable, vertently, fangled, sponsible, pression, fatigable. McCord says he prefers real Lost Positives, but for fun sometimes uses false ones, such as pistle. "The prefix in that word is really not the Latin e but the Greek epi," he explains. This justified his reply to a friend who sent him a clipping with a note: "Lighted to ward the closed which is cised from day's Irish Times." McCord wrote back: "Pistle ceived and tents...
...Knighthood in the Order of the British Empire for "furthering Anglo-American amity." When he got his knighthood, his children prepared him a surprise-a leather case engraved "Sir Douglas Fairbanks." The new knight took it in stride when he learned that foreigners are not permitted to bear the prefix "Sir." "Oh, never mind about titles," he said. But he did take up a knight's coat of arms from the College of Arms...