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Expanding Your Vocabulary (Wednesday, June 4^th, 2003)

I just stumbled upon a great new vocabulary word while reading Programming Perl: thaumatocracy. Although m-w.com, dictionary.com, and my 2129-page unabridged dictionary all fail to define it, as best I can tell it means The elite group whose members perform magic. Used in context:

The $hints and $bitmask are internal values; please ignore them unless you're a member of the thaumatocracy.

The more I use Perl, the more I like it.

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“In Heaven, the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and everything is organized by the Swiss. In Hell, the cooks are British, the mechanics are French, the police are German, the lovers are Swiss, and everything is organized by the Italians.”