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When I was in high school the languages available for study were Spanish, French, German and Latin. When our first child attended high school, it was still possible to take courses in Latin. The high school principal back then, a good ole knuckle dragger incapable of writing a simple declarative sentence, could’ve used a few years of it himself. Instead, he and the school board abolished Latin as a course of study in our public school system. If I’d have told him tu mortes he probably would’ve replied, “Two more days for what?”

Flash forward many, many years. I am compiling Maritime List 357 and the word rarisimus comes into my head from I know not where. I look at the shelf I’m working on… 35 lovely volumes, and I back it off to rarus.

Now you know all the Latin I remember.

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