>reading a novel >come across an unknown word >google

>>9132123
what word?

>Buy book at Yale University bookstore
>Author says "stretched his legs" so many times I have to start marking each time down on an envelope
why is this allowed?

That's a perfectly cromulent situation, OP.

>>9132131

You bought harry potter at the Yale University bookstore?

>>9132128
pultogue

>>9132123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEjQX8HVtG4

>>9132171
>Tfw I found the novel OP is reading
Whoah

>>9132843
I just finished it. Would recommend, it's fun.

>pyrolatrous

>>9132171
"We find that while words borrowed direct from the Gaelic count by
the hundred in bilingual districts, they occur at least by scores even within
the Pale, in regions where Irish has not been spoken for generations, and
where the vast majority of those that use them are quite unconscious that
they are not talking good “Saxon English.” Such words are “puss” (a lip), and
“gob” (snout, muzzle, beak). “I gev him a belt on the ‘gob,’” is common
among Dublin roughs, and even “a ‘pultóg’ on the ‘gob,’” with its two
Gaelic borrowings, is not unknown to Dublin schoolboys of a much higher
grade. “He has a great ‘puss’ on him” is said of a person who is pouting
sulkily;"

>>9132171
>>9132912
I don't speak native English but I do live in Scotland. Pultouge felt like a Gaelic word, and quite often, just like with bróg (shoe) -> brogue (a specific design of leather shoe), I could just guess that the spelling was anglicised (frenchified, really)

>>9132171
it's buldogue, reverse spudroism

>>9132131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQglZPVmoo8

I had similar problems when reading Idylls of The King.

>>9132123

Happened recently to me and 'ctenophile'. The only use of that word is in Grav's Rainbow.

The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it!

>>9133608
>ctenophile
a lover of combs?

>>9132123
>Be a frogposting cancer
>Only threads I'm capable of creating are low quality green texting memes and pseudo-political whining