Sunday, May 11, 2014

Constraint without constriction

Dear readers, this is a short post to beg an indulgence. Thus far, all of the blog posts have had titles which followed a strict lexical constraint. Three words. Middle word being "without" and the other words starting with "con".

However, "con-" as a prefix is written "com-" before five consonants, and is often reduced to "co-" in newer English words. Thus, I intend to relax the constraint on blog post titles just slightly, while, I hope, maintaining the spirit of the original constraint.

I sincerely hope not to offend nor to disappoint my readers.

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