disorderment

Updated: May 28, 2025

If the critters knew how to cypher, they would soon find out that a sum stated that way always eends in a naught. I never knew it to fail, and I defy any soul to cypher it so, as to make it come out any other way, either by Schoolmaster's Assistant or Algebra. When I was a boy, the Slickville bank broke, and an awful disorderment it made, that's a fact; nothin else was talked of.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville

If the critters knew how to cipher, they would soon find out that a sum stated that way always eends in a naught. I never knew it to fail, and I defy any soul to cipher it so, as to make it come out any other way, either by Schoolmaster's Assistant or Algebra. When I was a boy, the Slickville bank broke, and an awful disorderment it made, that's a fact; nothin' else was talked of.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - The Clockmaker : Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville