From today's Forgotten English word of the day calendar. I really like the first quote.
Twistical
Not quite moral. Used in New England.
-- John Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms, 1848
Birthday of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
American essayist and journalist, who jotted down in one of his notebooks: "Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural
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