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Notes on a Century of English According to Merriam-Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary

David Dickerson

Look up each word in Merriam Webster's 11th Collegiate Dictionary. All these words are listed there as having come into the English language in different years in the 1800s. Sort them into chronological order.

• hardpan (1817)
• zeta (1823)
• bosh (1834)
• consensus (1843)
• posterolateral (1852)
• provost court (1864)
• reedman (1872)
• thermocline (1898)

Use the last two digits of the years as indexes into the words to get letters that spell (reading all decades first) HESSE'S NINTH NOVEL which is SIDDHARTHA.