The worthless word for the day is: ephemerist

the worthless word for the day is: ephemerist

[fr. Gk ephemeris, diary] /ee PHEM er ist/
1) obs. one who keeps an ephemeris; a journalist
2) obs. one who studies the daily motions and
positions of the planets
3) a collector of ephemera [paper items (as posters,
broadsides, and tickets) that were originally meant
to be discarded after use but have since become
collectibles]

"Almost all the material that ephemerists collect is
intrinsically worthless."
- Sunday Telegraph, 27 May 1990

"To the uninitiated the word [ephemera] is faintly
suspect. To the initiate it may or may not cover a
multitude of items, from cigarette cards to uniform
buttons. To the Ephemera Society it has fairly
precisely defined limits: It covers printed or
handwritten items, produced specifically for short-
term use and, generally, for disposal."
- The Ephemerist,
Journal of the Ephemera Society (1975)

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