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pclmulqdqlast Friday at 3:53 PM1 replyview on HN

I think the test was vibe coded, because a xylologist is someone who studies wood, not someone who sells wood. I am not sure if "xylolgist" was the exact word, though.

xylo- = wood; -logy = study

Indeed from M-W: "a branch of dendrology dealing with the gross and the minute structure of wood"


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fittingoppositelast Friday at 7:24 PM

Seems to be a hapax legomenon https://www.oed.com/dictionary/xylopolist_n "OED's only evidence for xylopolist is from 1656, in the writing of Thomas Blount, antiquary and lexicographer."

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