Magick Without Tears

EDUCATION 439 chosen for reference. (Nuttall's is fairly good, though some very well-known words are omitted. The Oxford Pocket Dictionary is useless; it is for morons, illiterates, wallowers in "Basic English" -and [I suppose I Oxonians. No proper names, however well-known, unless used as common: e.g. Bobby, a flatfoot, a beetlecrusher , a harness bull; or Xantippe, a shrew, a lady. X-rays is given in the plural only: ditto "Roentgen-rays," and they give "Roentgenogram." "You never can tell!" Participles, plurals and the like are not "words" unless printed as such in big black type. E.g. Nuttall's "Juttingly" is a word; "jutting" is not, being in smaller type. "Soaking" is in small type, but also in big type as a noun; so it is a word.) 3. The Dictionary is the sole and final arbiter. This produces blasphemy, but averts assassination. 4. The first player starts with the letter A. The second may put any letter he chooses either before or after that A. The other continues as he will, and can. S. The player who cannot add a letter without completing a "word" loses. 6. A player whose tum it is must either add his letter within a reasonable (This is a matter of good feeling, courtesy and consideration) time, may say "I challenge" or, alternatively, "That is a 'word'." The other must then give the "word" that he intends, or deny that it is a "word" within the meaning of the Art, as the case may be. The Dictionary decides the winner. The chal1enged player may give one word only, and that in the form which is printed in the Dictionary; e.g. if he were chal1enged at BRUSS, and answered BRUSSELS, he would lose; if BRUSSELS-SPROUTS, he would win. Hyphens need not be given. CASHMERE is a "word"; it is a kind of shawl, etc; so is CHARLEY, a night-watchman . Don't argue: the Dictionary decides. 7. This game calls not only for an extensive vocabulary but for courage, foresight, judgment, resource, subtlety and