revirginize, sarcophage, wenge. that s one of my favorite british words ever, whinge, but there s a crisis with that word, whinge, and all the other words it came from. they re all sourced to meand meanderings of memory, which presumably was owned by one of the early editors of the oxford english dictionary, which is why it s all throughout this wook. recently, when a modern staffer was working on the entry, revirginize, to render virge cardinal again, to purify anew. it was recorded in meanderings of memory, by an author known only at nightlark. when they went looking, the book is nowhere to be found. the chief bibliographer of oxford english dictionary took up the search.