melonfool wrote:lacuna - one of my favourite words. I said "there is a lacuna on this issue in the policy" - dumbstruck silence.....I don't even think they are very unusual words. Mel
Still used quite a lot in the legal profession - in the sense of 'something missing' as opposed to a physical gap.
I remember when I first encountered the word: Mervyn Peake used it several times in the Gormenghast books