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Sperage

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Sper´age
n.1.Asperagus.
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There are also occasional errors, either of transcription or of unremarked instances of Iris's eccentricity of spelling (it is hard sometimes to be sure which): "The desserts [sic] of America have their buzzards" (126); "the sperage [2 steerage] son of a steerage mother" (133); a scattering of literals; for example, "complied" (for "compiled"), "blub" for "blurb" (both 156); and occasional failures of sense: "I do not argue with history's verdict that Iris was a distinctly minor poet.
Craig Abbott. Forging Fame: The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris by Edwards, A.S.G. / Style
 
 
 
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