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I was recently informed that I am something called a “co-valedictorian.” This confuses me on multiple levels.

Take the word itself. That’s seven syllables, my friends. SEVEN. It’s like one of those Knowledge Bowl questions where they give you a complicated Latin word and you’re supposed to decipher it based on your knowledge of smaller Latin words.

So here goes nothing:

Co = Company.

Valid = Authentic and useable, as with a coupon or passport.

Ick = An interjection expressing disgust

Tori = A Colonist who supported the British during the Revolutionary War.

An = An indefinite arti...