Monday 17 February 2014

Stor

Stor: verb. To be on the ground, but not be sitting or laying down. Some may say that this is no different from standing, but this is incorrect because “standing” can be used to describe the simple unmoving of objects and is not distinguishable from the object “sitting” or “lying”. For example “the box stood in the corner” has the same meaning as “the box sat in the corner”. This word was first used by an obscure writer attempting to make a horror story titled Mystery Mail (the story managed to be less obscure than the writer, the reason that its title is known but the writer’s name is not); in this story a box literally stood, to make the event more dramatic this writer invented the word, his story may have been more well known if he defined the word before using it in the story as if it were an already existing word in the English language.  Because of this decision, very few people had to wait until now to fully understand Mystery Mail.

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