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From: "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Archaic words
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 15:46:17 -0500
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At least, I think that's what they are.

I'm reading Fletcher Pratt's _The Well of the Unicorn_, and have
stumbled over "deserion", "deese", and "tercia". From context, I
think that all of them are military terms. Maybe

Searching on-line let me know that the first is obviously a misspelled
"desertion" and the third is a given name in Spanish.

Does anybody here know what these words really mean?

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Michael F. Stemper
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