From the Archives!—The Sikɹɪt Kɹʌʃ Linguist’s Locket

The SpecGram Archive Elves™

As previously reported, our very own Butch McBastard unearthed a satchel of papers and other miscellanea labeled, “Top Secret SpecGram Time Capsule, 1964—Do Not Open for 50 Years!” The intermittent wrangling with the SpecGram legal team over potential incriminating evidence proprietary information continues, but we are again able to share with our readers some of the treasures found within the satchel.

Here is a photo of the eighth archival item, a Sikɹɪt Kɹʌʃ Linguist’s Locket, a fashion accessory favored especially in the early 1920s by young women who were particularly enamored of certain young, attractive, virile male philologists. These squealing, breathless, faint-prone women who followed philologists from lecture to lecture were sometimes disparagingly referred to as kruppazigan, especially by older, homelier, less Germanic male philologists.

This particular specimen features two popular targets for a kruppaziga’s affection: the ever-popular “Saucy Freddy” and The Most Eligible Bachelor in Philology himself, Rasmus Rask.

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