The other word #EEDocSmith taught me was, 'yclept'.

It means, 'namely', or 'also known as'.

Currently reading #TheodoreSturgeon and just came across something that reminded me of #EEDocSmith ...

If only the English language (technically, perhaps, Anglo-Saxon) didn't continually evolve...

Where Sturgeon has 'helper', E.E. 'Doc' Smith would have written 'pimp', and meant exactly the same thing.

Unfortunately, I don't have the book from The Lensman series on tap, so I can't extract the exact section I'm comparing, think it might be Second-Stage Lensman but I could be wrong (:*