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prettygoodword ([personal profile] prettygoodword) wrote2007-08-14 07:16 am
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deltiology

deltiology - n., the hobby of collecting postcards.


I am amused by what Wikipedia's article thinks is a "typical" postcard. Coined in the 1940s from Greek root deltion, diminutive of deltos, writing tablet, letter.

---L.
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