Almost finished reading "Trent's Last Case" by E. C. Bentley.  Trent 
was writing a letter and discussing the use of words...  "Long words 
are abnormal, and like everything else that is abnormal, they are 
either very funny or tremendously solemn.... Then there's 
"terminological inexactitude".  How we all roared, and are still 
roaring, at that!"

Interesting for me was Churchill coined this phrase in 1906, Trent's 
Last Case was  published in 1912.  Are their other examples of  the 
phrase's use in fiction?

PS:  If you like detective fiction, this is a good one.

Best regards,

Pete van de Gohm

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