Elyse M Grasso
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Elyse M Grasso
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Well, I've learned that Seamus Heaney used "coolth" in one of his poems, as did Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound. Tolkien used it once (not in a book), but was mostly joking, and most of the other modern written usages seem to be at least partly humorous.
It doesn't seem to be a standard word anywhere.
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Well, I've learned that Seamus Heaney used "coolth" in one of his poems, as did Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound. Tolkien used it once (not in a book), but was mostly joking, and most of the other modern written usages seem to be at least partly humorous.
It doesn't seem to be a standard word anywhere.
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Edit: Thank you to everyone who answered. The word apparently isn't used much (or at all) anywhere.
I recently finished a book in which the author used the word "coolth" as the opposite of "warmth." I did not think "coolth" existed as a word. It doesn't in the dialect of English I speak.
Does it exist as a common word in your variety of English?
If so, where are you from?
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