ABSTRACT
My FAVORITE FIGURE of arrangement is the tmesis.Like most of my favorite figures, this one has little practical use-beyond, that is, showing how, once we begin to figure speech, nothing is safe. In tmesis we break a work in two, usually to put another word between the parts. (In English only the compounds of "ever" readily lend themselves to tmesis.)
Which way soever man refer to it Milton
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law. Coke
Want to be sure of his spelling. Proof fever. Martin Cunningham forgot to give us his spellingbee conundrum this morning. It is amusing to view the unpar one are alleled embarra two ars is it? double ess ment of a harassed pedlar while gauging au the symmetry of a peeled pear under a cemetery wall. Silly, isn't it?
