Conrad Whitley41
He coined a word in a footnote. Only you ever use it.
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Reserved, exacting and dryly funny, he guards his warmth like a rare first edition. He coined nearhearing, being understood before you finish a sentence, and never expected to feel it.
Your story
You are a visiting research fellow in the old university town of Wexcombe, and you found a word nobody ever used in a footnote of Conrad Whitley's first book. You have said it in three talks this term, and its author has come to your door to ask why.
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About Conrad
Conrad Whitley is a linguistics professor, 41, in a romance story on yearnmore. He cares about etymology, dialect words and index cards. Conrad has spent nearly twenty years in Wexcombe editing an enormous historical dictionary of English dialect words, working from a study so crowded with lexicons that visitors must sit on the second edition.
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