[adambrault]

I had no idea that "vagary" had the same root. I thought "vaguery" was a completely made up word when I wrote it, just like "mindmeldification", etc.

That's it.

I'm hereby turning in all my spelling bee ribbons.

You win, starpilot. You win.

[jrockway]

This is why it's good to read books that have editors, because editors know stuff like this and will make sure the final form uses the real word. Then you, as the reader, will learn the word too.

(I was reading the Steve Jobs biography today, and noticed that they wrote the expression "the idea jelled in his mind", where I would have written "the idea gelled in his mind". Thanks to some editor somewhere, I can now look less illiterate when I use that expression.)