Word: wrapt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bananas or Banannas. From the viewpoint of the ordinary reader, Wilson certainly has a point. The M.L.A. editions are crammed with niggling notes on whether Herman Melville used the spelling "bananas" or "banannas" and whether Howells wrote "wrapt" or "wrapped." In an earlier review of the M.L.A. edition of The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University), Cultural Critic Lewis Mumford found the text so cut up by the "barbed wire" of notations and arcane diacritical symbols that it was virtually unreadable...