While others are sending flowers and candy and words of love to their sweethearts today, I share my billet-doux with the world of words.
I have many people I love in my life who I consider my family, whether chosen or by blood, and they know how much I love them. Beyond that, I have a whole community of fellow word nerds who frequently send me wordplay and often-bygone terms that they think might strike my fancy ... and they're usually right. So if you're a logophile or you love one and are often confounded by their affinity for archaic terms, this column is for you.
To borrow a phrase from poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, how do we love words? Words are poetry in and of themselves.
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