SEVERAL readers have written to us adding their own examples of what Colum Clarke called “apposite adjacents” at the top of the pages of dictionaries (7 October). Among our favourites are two that Jonathan Ormond found in his Reader’s Digest Reverse Dictionary (1989 edition). “Armpit Art”, he suggests, sounds like a plausible future winner of the Turner Prize or some other award for contemporary art, while his favourite pairing is “something I would never want to hear in any religious service”: a “Kazoo Kyrie Eleison”.
Other readers have expanded the field to include encyclopedias. Glyn Williams…
