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So, Crispin's hair is incalcitrant.

Except it's not.

It can't be because the word doesn't bloody exist. I thought it was Word being stupid and not knowing the spelling, or perhaps I wasn't spelling it right (although generally I spell like a god (that would have to be a spelling god, though, an educated one like ... Athena not some grunt like Mars)) so I go and look it up on my Igoogle dictionary widgets. No sign of it. Ok...so I MUST be spelling it wrong. I had the brainwave of typing it straight into Google, because that's idiot friendly and often asks me "Did you mean to search for beautiful cook sucker?" when I've googled for something it clearly doesn't understand. And it's there in Google but I can't trust that 1,820 people know how to spell it, either, so I check my book dictionaries.

ITS NOT THERE! Impossible! Incroyable! Last resort. the Online OED. My Bible.

I sit staring at the screen. IT’S NOT THERE!!!!!!!

OK. I use a word that doesn't exist. How is this possible?