The Giltwrights

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The Giltwrights

n.
the imaginary committee of elders that keeps a running log of all your mistakes, steadily building their case that you’re secretly a fraud, a coward, a doofus, and a douche—who would’ve revoked your good fortune years ago had they not been hampered by their own bitter squabblings over proper grammar and spelling.

Old English gilt, awareness of wrongdoing + wrought, shaped with hammers. Pronounced “the gilt-rahyts.”

Symptomania

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Malotype

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Insoucism

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Nementia

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Emodox

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Mcfeely

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Maugry

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The Whipgraft Delusion

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The Wends

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Vaucasy

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The Meantime

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Keep

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Fitching

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Deep Gut

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Addleworth

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Ecstatic Shock

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Eisce

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Loss Of Backing

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Thwit

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Sayfish

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Nodrophobia

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Kerisl

piles of old books scattered in an abandoned room

Volander

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Waldosia

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