l-u-ux

Updated: June 11, 2025

We stood in a class of forty, and lost our places for the misfit of a syllable, a letter, a definition, or even a stumble in elocution. I remember once losing the head of the class for saying: L-u-ux Lux. It was a terrible blow, and I think of it yet with burning mortification on my cheeks. In the "Nunnery" we were supposed to have learned how to spell.

Various - McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896